Question about email client

RouterOS Beginner Basics
1

I am running RouterOS on a PC, but can’t send any emails. For this RouterOS email client to work, do I need to setup an email server on a separate computer?

_ Scott

2

You can set up your own email server, but normally not required to send IF the recipient is local to that email server. You can send to non-local addresses if your ISP email account recognizes your IP as “trusted”.

Set up the email server and “from” address in
/tool e-mail.
This requires an IP for the server, so ya might need to do a nslookup on your ISP’s email server name.

3

I am trying to setup the user-manager and hotspot on the same PC. The PC has 2 NICs, public side and private side. When setting up the subscriber\customer, what do I put for the email address? Can it be something like someone@yahoo.com, or hotmail, or something like that?

4

tha’ts another kind of question, please make a new topic for different question

5

Okay. I did a nslookup of my upstream provider’s email server like you suggested and got
a “non-authoritative” name and IP address. In Winbox, I put the IP address in the server field, and my email address (something@coxinet.net) in the “from” field (which is different than the dns name of the email server - webmail.coxmail.com).

Next, I went to the RouterOS console and entered the command:
/ tool e-mail send body=“Hello from Scott” to=johndoe@yahoo.com subject=“Testing MikroTik”

I did not get any error messages, but the email never showed up at the yahoo email account. I am sure I did something wrong, but don’t know what. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help.
P.S. I believe that this is still regarding the first topic.

6

I realized that my upstream provider had 3 separate IP address for e-mail servers; one for incoming, another for outgoing, and another for online account access. The address I used for /tools e-mail server was for the online account access IP address.

I went back into Winbox and changed the server IP address to the outgoing IP address. I then repeated the same /tool e-mail send … message before, and IT WORKED!!!

Thanks for your help!

-Scott