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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

At Lars's suggestion I've added those instructions (plus a little extra) to
a small tutorial here https://www.dhis2.org/node/48.

On 30 September 2014 12:08, <rin.channara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Great, I will do follow
>
> thank you
> *From:* Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5:28 Evening
> *To:* channara rin <rin.channara@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Cc:* DHIS 2 Developers list <dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, DHIS 2
> Users list <dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Rin
>
> It is easy enough to setup with either postfix or exim4 to send mail
> directly from the host.  BUT, the most important thing is to have your
> networking properly setup ie. you must have a fully qualified domain name
> and make sure that hostname and /etc/hosts is correct.  If you don't have
> this, you need to take a different approach by relaying to some other
> smarthost.
>
> I'll outline the procedure for exim4:
>
> install exim4 with 'sudo apt-get install exim4'. Then configure with:
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
>
> Then working through the screens ...
>
> 1.  Select the option for "internet site; mail is sent directly through
> smtp"
>
> 2.  The system mail name should be your fqdn (eg.  dhis2.somewhere.org)
>
> 3.  Make sure smtp listener only listens on localhost (127.0.0.1 ; ::1)
>
> 4.  leave "other destinations for which mail is accepted" blank
>
> 5.   leave "domains to relay for" blank
>
> 6.   leave "machines to relay for" blank
>
> Just accept defaults for everything else.
>
> Try sending yourself a mail by typing:
>
> mail rin.channara@xxxxxxxxx
>
> (finish the mail by just typing a dot on a line on its own)
>
> Beware the mail may well be sent but end up in your spam.
>
> Check 'sudo tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog' to see what happened.
>
> Bob
>
> On 30 September 2014 11:02, <rin.channara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  Hi all dev and user love DHIS2,
>> Has any body know how to configure localhost running DHIS2 can emailing?
>> -webserver: apache tomcat
>> -DHIS2 v2.16
>> -DB: postgreSQL
>>
>> Thank you
>> CHANNARA
>>
>>
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