How to setup email in cPanel on AWS Lightsail

[LordLiverpool]

Hello cPanel,

Are there any comprehensive instructions on how to set up email within cPanel on an AWS Lightsail server?

• I plan to set up an AWS Lightsail server running cPanel.
• Then I plan to install WordPress.

That's the easy part.

I then have two main email objectives:

• Get WordPress to send transactional emails e.g:
  • forgot password.
  • new user registration.
  • contact form submission.
• I want to give the owners of the website their own mailboxes i.e. webmail.example.com e.g:
  • [email protected].
  • [email protected].

Can cPanel solve these two objective for me?

Thanks in advance!

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! Unfortunately this won't be as easy as you're hoping, because Amazon blocks email traffic by default:

Remove port 25 restriction from your Lightsail instance

aws.amazon.com

Why is port 25 blocked?

Symptoms When trying to send mail from your server, the mail is never sent. Connections to other servers on port 25 refuse to connect. Description Many providers block access to send data out on...

support.cpanel.net

You'll need to setup a smarthost if you plan to send email from that system, and then you'll be able to configure everything else normally.

cPanel would let you create and manage the mailboxes easily. WordPress notifications work just fine, but if you plan to create any forms or contact pages, please make sure they authenticate to a local user before trying to send a message.

 

[LordLiverpool]

@cPRex Thank you for replying it's appreciated.

Thank you for the links, they are very good.
OK, I understand about Port 25 being closed and needing to request it be opened by AWS.
Also, I have to verify the domain and the associated email addresses with them via extra DNS records.

The piece of the puzzle I seem to be missing is how to authenticate contact forms to a local user.
Does cPanel have any instructions on how to set this up? I Googled but the results were vague.

Kind Regards.

 

[cPRex]

I don't have any specifics as each form and programming language will be a bit different. You'd have to edit your form to connect to a user - there is a good discussion along with an example here:

SMTP Authentication with PHP mail() function

I'm stuck on trying to add SMTP Authentication to my php script using the PHP mail() function. The script currently works but because it isn't using SMTP Authentication the path of the php file an...

stackoverflow.com

 

[LordLiverpool]

@cPRex

Thanks for your help.