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| Configuration | Description | Regular SMTP Server | GMail SMTP Server | Office 365 SMTP Server | |
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| mail_combine | Do you want to combine emails for each email target? | true | |||
| mail_from | Email address you want to use for NMIS notifications | nmis@domain.com | |||
| mail_server | The mail FQDN or IP address | yourmailserver.domain.com | smtp.gmail.com | smtp.office365.com | |
| mail_server_ipproto | Should we use IPv4 or IPv6 to connect (IPv6 will only | ipv4 | ipv4 | ipv4 | |
| mail_server_port | The TCP port to use for connection | 25 | 587 | 587 | |
| mail_use_tls | Should the TLS protocol be used | false | true | true | |
| mail_use_sasl | Should the SASL protocol be used | false | false | false | |
| mail_user | The username to login with, blank for nothing | youruser@gmail.com | youruser@office365.com | ||
| mail_password | The password to login with, blank for nothing | yourpassword | yourpassword | ||
| mail_domain | domainname to use for SMTP | domain.com | gmail.com | office365.com | |
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Once you have configured your email server, it is best to test it, login to your NMIS server and run the command
NMIS8:
- Navigate to the admin directory – cd /usr/local/nmis8/admin/
- Run the testemail.pl
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- file – ./testemail.pl
- this will send an email to the Contact configured as Contact1
- file – ./testemail.pl
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- If there was any error you can debug it with ./testemail.pl debug=true
NMIS9:
- Navigate to the admin directory – cd /usr/local/nmis9/admin
- Run the testemail.pl file – ./testemail.pl
- This will send an email to the Contract configured as Contact1
- If there was any error you can debug it with ./testemail.pl debug=5
- Run the testemail.pl file – ./testemail.pl
If you don't have the file present in the directory indicated you can request support to help or grab file from GitHub
Github Instructions:
NMIS8.
- Navigate to the admin directory – cd /usr/local/nmis8/admin
- Issue the following cmd: "wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Opmantek/nmis8/nmis8_dev/admin/testemail.pl"
- This will drop the file testemail.pl to the admin directory
- You will need to change ownership and make executable with the cmd below
- chown nmis:nmis testemail.pl
- chmod 770 testemail.pl
NMIS9
- Navigate to the admin directory – cd /usr/local/nmis9/admin
- Issue the following cmd: "wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Opmantek/nmis9/nmis9_dev/admin/testemail.pl"
- This will drop the file testemail.pl to the admin directory
- You will need to change ownership and make executable with the cmd below
- chown nmis:nmis testemail.pl
- chmod 770 testemail.pl
GMAIL Issues:
If you still are having problems with testing email to your Contact1, please turn on option for Access testemail.pl debug=true which will provide very verbose output for what the problem might be.If you steel having problems with no test email in your inbox, please turn on you access for less secure apps, in the link https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255
You will be able to see all the missing steps in you google accounts.
