I’m fairly new to the vps world, i’ve used shared hosting for over 6 years and because our Laravel app got bigger and we needed queu workers, we made the switch to digitalocean droplet with Laravel Forge.
Everything’s running smootly except our emails… i dont want to use google mail services or anyother because we have a few mails on our team and that’s why i made another droplet for Mail-in-a-box server.
i’ve found the following link and made the same changes:
For those who struggled to integrate sendgrid with mail in a box, you need to edit the contents of main.cf located in /etc/postfix/ like mentioned in the following post:
However i thought that i needed to change the contents of main.cf file to the given details on the tutorial, which is not the case,
you just need to do the following:
change following line in main.cf:
relayhost = → relayhost = [smtp.sendgrid.net]:587
and append/add the following text block under relayhost
First I just wanted to thank you and the community for these instructions on setting up Sendgrid as an SMTP relay service. It works great to get around the insufferable IP reputation issue (due to the UCEPROTECTL3 blacklist) that comes with being a Digital Ocean customer.
These instructions worked perfectly. But like others will surely find out, if they haven’t already, using Sendgrid comes with its own set of issues. Their IP’s get blacklisted too and since you’ll, in most cases, be using a shared IP, your reputations will get slammed with the rest of the spammers - AGAIN! So, if you’re like me, you’ll want to try Mailgun. The issue with Mailgun is they force you to authenticate each domain name you use on your MIAB install. In that case, here are the steps I followed to get that up and running. If you’re only running one domain name on your MIAB, then you can probably follow the same steps for Sendgrid except for the one line that should look like this instead:
İ’ve switched over from DO to hetzner, because of the price and ip listing. İm using entirely my own email server now without relay hosts. And ip’s are not blacklisted. İm allready using it for a few months.