postfix/README.md

docker-postfix

Simple Postfix SMTP TLS relay docker image.

Build instructions

Clone this repo and then:

cd docker-Postfix
sudo docker build -t postfix .

You can also find a prebuilt docker image from Docker Hub, which can be pulled from the Hub:

sudo docker pull juanluisbaptiste/postfix:latest

How to run it

The following env variables need to be passed to the container:

• SMTP_SERVER Server address of the SMTP server to use.
• SMTP_USERNAME Username to authenticate with.
• SMTP_PASSWORD Password of the SMTP user.

To use this container from anywhere, the port 25 needs to be exposed to the docker host server:

docker run --rm --name postfix -p "25:25" -e SMTP_SERVER=smtp.bar.com -e SMTP_USERNAME=foo@bar.com -e SMTP_PASSWORD=XXXXXXXX postfix

If you are going to use this container from other docker containers then it's better to just publish the port:

docker run --rm --name postfix -P -e SMTP_SERVER=smtp.bar.com -e SMTP_USERNAME=foo@bar.com -e SMTP_PASSWORD=XXXXXXXX postfix

A note about using gmail as a relay

Since last year, Gmail by default (does not allow email clients that don't use OAUTH 2)[http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/new-security-measures-will-affect-older.html] for authentication (like Thunderbird or Outlook). First you need to enable access to "Less secure apps" on your google settings.

Also take into account that email From: header will contain the email address of the account being used to authenticate against the Gmail SMTP server(SMTP_USERNAME), the one on the email will be ignored by Gmail.