Postfix + OpenVas Email Alerts

[Omertus]

Hello,

I need some advice about configuring Postfix, because I would like to connect it to our company exchange SMTP server. I already tried postfix and sending manually an email. But I’ve got a status=bounced + unknown user error, and could not find any useful solution. And also could not find solution for connection to Exchange SMTP. So I would appreciate any advice. If it’s necessary I can sent more details about the postfix main.cf file.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[rippledj]

You can try to follow these instructions for setting up SMTP:

Configuring SMTP for alerts

I am looking at setting up SMTP for alert notifications. Thanks to @bricks I was able to see how the Docker containers can be configured to use msmtp as an MTA. I have some instructions for setting up msmtp MTA for Kali Linux or for the source code install: Greenbone’s gvmd uses a system call to sendmail when alerts are sent. Seems the recommended method is to use msmtp (which is a drop in replacement) so, these instructions should work regardless of whether sendmail is already installed alth…

[bricks]

The Greenbone Community Edition just passes the emails via local sendmail and that’s it.

Setting up a MTA is a tough task with many pitfalls. Several books have been written about this topic and the internet is full of tutorials. Therefore we don’t add anything about setting up a MTA like Postfix in our source build docs. IMHO this forum is also not the right place for getting help about Postfix specific issues, sorry.