Re: [exim] Running our own email server on GCP

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Author: Terrance Devor
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To: Zakaria, mbaig, Dmitry Provodnikov
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Running our own email server on GCP
Hello Zakaria,

I really appreciate your input on this.

Dmitri provided a solution where we open the port forward an IP within our
own block of IPs using the Google Cloud Router and nat traverse on the
internal side 25->2525 of GCP. I have the team looking into this currently.

There is also Sendgrid service available which will allow relay. Still
don't know how the EHLO handshake would look....

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 6:50 AM Zakaria via Exim-users <exim-users@???>
wrote:

> It seems you can’t unblock port 25, refer to
> https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail <
> https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail>
>
> In such case, I advise to purchase low range VPS while I would recommend
> rather to just migrate away from GCP with higher spec VPS if needed, and
> notice there are hosting companies providing almost as elastic features as
> these cloud based providers and much more affordable in some conditions
> depending on your usage, or then setup EXIM as SMTP Relay server, and relay
> from the emails to the IMAP server over GCP, note you will have to open
> LMTP port in GCP so it can be accessed by the remote VPS server IP e.g.
> using following configuration in dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf file from
> dovecot side.
>
> service lmtp {
>
>   inet_listener lmtp {
>     address = 127.0.0.1 ::1 APPEND HERE SMTP RELAY SERVER IP ONLY
>     port = 3939
>   }
> }

>
> Zakaria.
>
> > On 20 Feb 2022, at 09:15, Cyborg via Exim-users <exim-users@???>
> wrote:
> >
> > Am 20.02.22 um 01:05 schrieb Terrance Devor via Exim-users:
> >> Hello Zakaria,
> >>
> >> I agree if port 25 is open it would work just fine, but how to get
> around
> >> the fact that GCP block port 25?
> >>
> >
> > ... using a different hoster ofcourse.
> >
> > best regards,
> > Marius
> >
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