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Asked: 2026-06-11T07:35:10+00:00

My VM-Ware VM running Debian 6 doesn’t send emails since I moved to another

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My VM-Ware VM running Debian 6 doesn’t send emails since I moved to another house with another modem/router. I did a complete reinstall of Debian, but still I can’t send email. My network adapter is set to ‘Bridged’ (with ‘Replicate physical network connection state’ enabled).
I installed an application that needs to send an email to work properly. But I can’t finish it because I don’t receive an email at all.

date | mail test@example.com on the command-line also doesn’t work, so it hasn’t something to do with the application.

Do I need to configure my router in order to send external emails from my VM?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I managed to solve the mailing-problems!

    I needed to do two things:

    1. Setting up a SMTP-server for Postfix because my ISP doesn’t allow usage of port 25 without using their SMTP-server. See this reference for a how-to.
    2. Then I needed to configure a ‘send-from adress’, because by default emails are sent from a localhost email adress. The SMTP-server doesn’t recognizes this as valid and prevents the email from being sent. See this reference for a how-to.

    It cost me almost a few days to solve it, but now I can receive outgoing emails from my Debian system :).

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