Send only mailbox in Plesk

[biggles]

Before Plesk 11 it was possible to have a mail account just for sending emails, you didn't have to enable the mailbox function. From Plesk 11 this is necessary or you cannot connect to the account. Anyone know a way around it?

[prupert]

Why do you want this? If you don't want to receive replies (which I'm not sure why, but heck, you might have your reason) you might just as well forge the From header in your client.

[biggles]

Just thinking safety. I primarily use it for machines sending email (scanners, routers, services etc) and it's nice to have a way for them to send email. If a mailbox is connected to the mail account it will be filled eventually.

[scott]

I do the exact same thing here

[biggles]

Scott: you mean you forge the address?

[scott]

No I mean we use it like you do. We have accounts for specific services, like zabbix for example. It has its own sending account for alerts. I use it on my own accounts too, where I'll use different SMTP servers for differnt email addresses I use, and the mailboxes on those accounts are configured to forward.

[biggles]

ok, so you might get it to work by using a forward. Good idea!

[faris]

I'm not really sure I completely understand your problem biggles.

There's no need to have a mailbox capable of receiving anything in order to authenticate and send email.

The most basic answer to your question would be to set up a mailbox in the normal way but with a 1kb quota (or 0kb it Plesk will allow it). This will prevent an unmonitored mailbox from filling up.

Another solution would be use an existing (or specially-created) mailbox address for the authentication. The authentication credentials do not have to match the "From" address you want to send from. e.g. I use one account to authenticate outgoing smtp for all my incoming pop3 accounts.

Another solution, if practical, is to add the IP of the sender to the whitelist in Plesk's mail configuration page. This allows any email to be relayed without authentication as long as it comes from that IP. (this is why 127.0.0 is whitelisted - if you remove that then local services would have to authenticate before being able to send).

[And if I understand correctly, Scott is suggesting that you configure a mailbox as normal but configure it to forward rather than collect email. I didn't get the point of that at first. But I suppose that if you forward to a blackhole address you will not get any mail gathering dust, or I suppose you could forward to another monitored address.]

Sorry if I've misunderstood what you are trying to achieve.