Hey, please, keep making videos on this topic. I am subbing to your channel. No one is seemingly trying to teach people how to enable and use mail servers at home.
Thanks for your comment and I appreciate that you subscribed. I do plan to release another video on hosting email (covering MailPlus) in the near future so more content is on the way.
I watched with patience and great interest the detailed Video on Mail Server Setup and then switched over to my installation realising that the Menues were completely different from what was presented on the Video. The key to the the missmatch was to be found in the fact, that I am using a MaiPlus Server. However, the video brought some good tips also to be used on the MailPlus Server as far as Secutrity is concerned. So thanks a lot for the nice job. And Happy New Year.
@jachencarl You're welcome and Happy New Year to you also. Glad to hear that the content was helpful to you even if you are running Synology MailPlus Server. I plan to have a look at MailPlus in the next few months and hope to get a video out on it up as well.
A minor clarrification; by default, Synology creates firewall rules for all port forwarding rules you create unless you have disabled this feature under "Port Forwarding"->"Settings". Another helpful addition would be to show how to create SRV records; these can be used to help clients auto-discover email settings when configuring email clients.
@kenargo Thanks for your feedback!! I actually did disable the option to create firewall rules automatically in my setup and I appreciate the suggestion to include details on creating SRV records. I need to look into SRV records and may create another video if/when I get details put together.
@@digital_aloha I have some issues because is possible send emails from my accounts but it doesnt receibe the response or any other incoming email, also thunderbird is working great but with the same behavior, and it show me a notification stating "conection to server mail.(my domain) time out, any words to bring me some help? I really appreciate it in advance
@@jlsantana2008 Its really difficult to say where the issue is with receiving emails because there are so many things in play, especially if you setup email to pass through Dynu Systems. What I would check is to make sure port forwarding and firewall rules allow access to your Synology NAS. Also, if you did sign up for Dynu Systems Email Store/Forward you can do a few tests from the Control Panel to confirm the configuration is setup properly as well. Hope this helps? And good luck to you in your setup!!
@@digital_aloha thanks, actually I already solve it te doing everything and checking all configs, it was the port config in the dynu storage, It was set up in port 26 and my router has port 25 config to forward, thanks a lot u was very helpfully, happy new year in advance
@user-uy9tt8yz9l You're welcome!! I am looking into doing another video covering MailServer Plus, although I don't have a specific time frame on when I plan to release it. I'd guess likely before the end of June, but no promises on that. 😉
@@Aasen79 I should be releasing the MailPlus video sometime in August (if all goes well) and will include using a non-standard port (port 26) in the video. Thanks for the suggestion!! Hopefully you figure things out prior to the video and share what you did in the comments if you do. Good luck!!
@11:30 When setting up the IMAP/POP3 clients, even if the ports for forwarding and firewall rules were enabled from thee router but when setting up the email client (Thunderbird in this example) - the Confirm Security Exceptions are not successful - does it mean that we havee to install a specific Certificate so that our domain will become trusworthy? The Synology Certificate by default is not issued properly. Is there any steps that is missing in this setup?
I have not tried this but I believe you can use Let's Encrypt certificates and assign to your MailPlus server. Go to control panel > Security > Certificates > Add. create certificate for root domain and in the Subject Alternative Name line add mail.
Hello sir! I managed to set up the Synology mail server. I can send out mail but can not receive emails into the mail server. I have gotten a couple of warnings from my ISP about warning attempts into my synology NAS. They may be blocking my attempts to send email to my Synology NAS. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Gary P.S. Your tutorials are amazing!!! Thank you!!!
Hi Gary, You're welcome and thank you for the compliment on my videos!! Regarding your issue on sending emails it may be that your ISP is blocking port 25 and that may be the reason for those warnings as well. What I would suggest (if you did setup a Dynu account) is to use another port for outgoing email which this article covers -> www.dynu.com/Resources/Tutorials/EmailServices/EmailServerSetup/How-to-set-up-Synology-MailPlus-with-your-own-domain-name. Hopefully that does the trick for you and let me know how it goes. Best of luck!!
Hello! Thanks for this. I followed all the steps. However, I am struggling with receiving emails at Gmail. Sent emails to protomail or my corporate account works, but emails sent to Gmail are lost. Any idea of what might be happening? Thanks!
@tefazDK You could, but I would suggest using some sort of outbound relay for sending email. It just makes delivery of email a little more reliable. Incoming email could go directly to your mail server if you want to bypass a service like Dynu. Hope this helps and good luck with your set up!!
Has the transfer of Google Domains over to Squarespace required any changes to your setup? It is my understanding that Squarespace does not support DDNS settings.
Here is my question. After your setup, can you set up rules or create any manual rules for scanning the incoming email? For me, I'd like to have a way to access incoming email. Like say it is something from a family member, then I'd like to scan the email addresses for family; and, if so, then change the subject to something like this. [old.Subject] becomes soemthing like [FAMILY/Cindy -- ] + [old.Subject] --> or something like that. Or, also, I'd like to send any emails that I don't want to ever read to some dummy email account on my home mail server -- like "OldEmails@". Can you do that?
Good question!! In Synology Mail Server the closest thing I can find that comes to filtering incoming email is the Black and White List option under Security. This will allow you to accept, reject or discard emails that come in based on rules you specify. I don't know of a way to rewrite the subject of incoming emails. For further details check out Synology's knowledge base article -> kb.synology.com/en-nz/DSM/help/MailServer/mailserver_spam?version=7. Hope this helps and best of luck in your setup!!
Thanks a lot for your detailed explanation on synology products. Really helpful. As for me, I'm using three Nas'es, namely 414slim, 916+ and a 920+. They're all on the same network. The problem is that I have to keep my local VPN on when using the internet for most of the time. This is mainly because I live in China. The NAS'es are working properly, but I have no way to access either of them when I'm on vpn. Once switched off, no problem accessing their contents. Is there any workaround for this? Thanks in advance.
@user-wl2ih5cl9l You're welcome! Not completely sure how to answer your question and is this related to this video on running Synology Mail Server? Things you should probably look into in general is your VPN setup and see if there is a way to allow routes/access to your local network. I find in my setup that even if I'm connected to a VPN provider I'm able to access my local network so I'm sure there is some setting/configuration that should do the same for you. Sorry I couldn't be of much help, but if you do have further details I can see if I could assist further. Good luck to you!!
FYI!!! There is a minor Bug in DYNU's pasting of the DKIM key. To fix this just go to the line ----END RSA PRIVATE KEY ------ place the Curser at the end of the line and hit the Delete key 1 or 2 times. Pasting places blank spaces and will cause it to fail. This will Fix it. Do not hit the back space, just the delete key.
Actually in the end emails are stored on the Synology NAS. What Dynu provides is an intermediary that helps with sending and receiving emails. What you could do is not setup the email store and forward service and have your emails sent directly to your NAS if your ISP doesn't block the service.
Hey, please, keep making videos on this topic. I am subbing to your channel. No one is seemingly trying to teach people how to enable and use mail servers at home.
Thanks for your comment and I appreciate that you subscribed. I do plan to release another video on hosting email (covering MailPlus) in the near future so more content is on the way.
@PoeLemic second this
@@digital_aloha
Dynu rules! Thanks for the guide.
You're welcome!! Glad the video was helpful and I definitely think Dynu provides great services!!
Great video. Perfect for my email situation. Thanks.
You're welcome and thanks for the compliment on the video!! Best of luck in getting your mail server configured to your specifications!!
Wow, glad I stumbled upon this. Excellent guide. Subbed
Glad you found that the video was helpful and thanks for subscribing!!
Great tutorial. Thanks.
You're welcome!!
At 7:13, you pasted the whole DNS entry line (including host and type), and not just the value for the DKIM. Did you fix that later?
I watched with patience and great interest the detailed Video on Mail Server Setup and then switched over to my installation realising that the Menues were completely different from what was presented on the Video.
The key to the the missmatch was to be found in the fact, that I am using a MaiPlus Server. However, the video brought some good tips also to be used on the MailPlus Server as far as Secutrity is concerned. So thanks a lot for the nice job. And Happy New Year.
@jachencarl You're welcome and Happy New Year to you also. Glad to hear that the content was helpful to you even if you are running Synology MailPlus Server. I plan to have a look at MailPlus in the next few months and hope to get a video out on it up as well.
A minor clarrification; by default, Synology creates firewall rules for all port forwarding rules you create unless you have disabled this feature under "Port Forwarding"->"Settings". Another helpful addition would be to show how to create SRV records; these can be used to help clients auto-discover email settings when configuring email clients.
@kenargo Thanks for your feedback!! I actually did disable the option to create firewall rules automatically in my setup and I appreciate the suggestion to include details on creating SRV records. I need to look into SRV records and may create another video if/when I get details put together.
@@digital_aloha any update for this?
Can you use Cloudflare tunnels for a workaround for port 25 and 143 for the mailserver?
Great video. Thank you for sharing!
You're welcome!! Glad you liked the video and good luck with your Synology Mail Server setup!!
U are the G.O.A.T. thanks a lot
@jlsantana2008 Funny... You're welcome and thank you for the G.O.A.T. comment/compliment!!
@@digital_aloha I have some issues because is possible send emails from my accounts but it doesnt receibe the response or any other incoming email, also thunderbird is working great but with the same behavior, and it show me a notification stating "conection to server mail.(my domain) time out, any words to bring me some help? I really appreciate it in advance
@@jlsantana2008 Its really difficult to say where the issue is with receiving emails because there are so many things in play, especially if you setup email to pass through Dynu Systems. What I would check is to make sure port forwarding and firewall rules allow access to your Synology NAS. Also, if you did sign up for Dynu Systems Email Store/Forward you can do a few tests from the Control Panel to confirm the configuration is setup properly as well. Hope this helps? And good luck to you in your setup!!
@@digital_aloha thanks, actually I already solve it te doing everything and checking all configs, it was the port config in the dynu storage, It was set up in port 26 and my router has port 25 config to forward, thanks a lot u was very helpfully, happy new year in advance
@@jlsantana2008 You're welcome. I'm happy to hear you got everything sorted out in your setup. Happy New Year to you as well!!
Thanks Digital Aloha! A very informative and concise video. Any chance you're thinking of doing another for MailServer Plus? :)
@user-uy9tt8yz9l You're welcome!! I am looking into doing another video covering MailServer Plus, although I don't have a specific time frame on when I plan to release it. I'd guess likely before the end of June, but no promises on that. 😉
Would really appreciate a mailplus server introduction using port 26.
Only getting errors trying to set it up.
@@Aasen79 I should be releasing the MailPlus video sometime in August (if all goes well) and will include using a non-standard port (port 26) in the video. Thanks for the suggestion!! Hopefully you figure things out prior to the video and share what you did in the comments if you do. Good luck!!
@11:30 When setting up the IMAP/POP3 clients, even if the ports for forwarding and firewall rules were enabled from thee router but when setting up the email client (Thunderbird in this example) - the Confirm Security Exceptions are not successful - does it mean that we havee to install a specific Certificate so that our domain will become trusworthy? The Synology Certificate by default is not issued properly. Is there any steps that is missing in this setup?
I have not tried this but I believe you can use Let's Encrypt certificates and assign to your MailPlus server. Go to control panel > Security > Certificates > Add. create certificate for root domain and in the Subject Alternative Name line add mail.
Hello sir! I managed to set up the Synology mail server. I can send out mail but can not receive emails into the mail server. I have gotten a couple of warnings from my ISP about warning attempts into my synology NAS. They may be blocking my attempts to send email to my Synology NAS. Any suggestions?
Kind regards,
Gary
P.S. Your tutorials are amazing!!! Thank you!!!
Hi Gary, You're welcome and thank you for the compliment on my videos!! Regarding your issue on sending emails it may be that your ISP is blocking port 25 and that may be the reason for those warnings as well. What I would suggest (if you did setup a Dynu account) is to use another port for outgoing email which this article covers -> www.dynu.com/Resources/Tutorials/EmailServices/EmailServerSetup/How-to-set-up-Synology-MailPlus-with-your-own-domain-name. Hopefully that does the trick for you and let me know how it goes. Best of luck!!
@@digital_aloha Yes sir! That did the trick!!! Thank you again, kind regards!!!
@@garylefebvre5407 Awesome!! Glad using another port worked!!
Hello! Thanks for this. I followed all the steps. However, I am struggling with receiving emails at Gmail. Sent emails to protomail or my corporate account works, but emails sent to Gmail are lost. Any idea of what might be happening? Thanks!
Will this also work for synology mail plus?
I actually have a video that goes through setting up Synology Mail Plus as well -> ua-cam.com/video/UoPVlKBcND0/v-deo.html.
Is it possible to perform this trick without using a service such as Dynu DNS?
@tefazDK You could, but I would suggest using some sort of outbound relay for sending email. It just makes delivery of email a little more reliable. Incoming email could go directly to your mail server if you want to bypass a service like Dynu. Hope this helps and good luck with your set up!!
Has the transfer of Google Domains over to Squarespace required any changes to your setup? It is my understanding that Squarespace does not support DDNS settings.
Its also possible to use the Google relay server ...
Here is my question. After your setup, can you set up rules or create any manual rules for scanning the incoming email? For me, I'd like to have a way to access incoming email. Like say it is something from a family member, then I'd like to scan the email addresses for family; and, if so, then change the subject to something like this.
[old.Subject] becomes soemthing like [FAMILY/Cindy -- ] + [old.Subject] --> or something like that.
Or, also, I'd like to send any emails that I don't want to ever read to some dummy email account on my home mail server -- like "OldEmails@". Can you do that?
Good question!! In Synology Mail Server the closest thing I can find that comes to filtering incoming email is the Black and White List option under Security. This will allow you to accept, reject or discard emails that come in based on rules you specify. I don't know of a way to rewrite the subject of incoming emails. For further details check out Synology's knowledge base article -> kb.synology.com/en-nz/DSM/help/MailServer/mailserver_spam?version=7. Hope this helps and best of luck in your setup!!
Thanks a lot for your detailed explanation on synology products. Really helpful.
As for me, I'm using three Nas'es, namely 414slim, 916+ and a 920+. They're all on the same network. The problem is that I have to keep my local VPN on when using the internet for most of the time. This is mainly because I live in China.
The NAS'es are working properly, but I have no way to access either of them when I'm on vpn. Once switched off, no problem accessing their contents.
Is there any workaround for this? Thanks in advance.
@user-wl2ih5cl9l You're welcome! Not completely sure how to answer your question and is this related to this video on running Synology Mail Server? Things you should probably look into in general is your VPN setup and see if there is a way to allow routes/access to your local network. I find in my setup that even if I'm connected to a VPN provider I'm able to access my local network so I'm sure there is some setting/configuration that should do the same for you. Sorry I couldn't be of much help, but if you do have further details I can see if I could assist further. Good luck to you!!
is it free to use google domain ddns?
FYI!!! There is a minor Bug in DYNU's pasting of the DKIM key. To fix this just go to the line ----END RSA PRIVATE KEY ------ place the Curser at the end of the line and hit the Delete key 1 or 2 times. Pasting places blank spaces and will cause it to fail. This will Fix it. Do not hit the back space, just the delete key.
Why not Store Emails on synology
Actually in the end emails are stored on the Synology NAS. What Dynu provides is an intermediary that helps with sending and receiving emails. What you could do is not setup the email store and forward service and have your emails sent directly to your NAS if your ISP doesn't block the service.
@@digital_aloha Great input, I Find in your Channel unique Stuff 👍
@@digital_alohaso, we just use the SMTP Relay only isn't?
Your setup doesn’t allow the creation of a PTR record, so your email will be tagged as spam.
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Where specifically did you run into problems?
Nice instructions, DYNU i now have to figure out di i need to add my URL to it is it Free? do i still need Googel D