I upgraded from vCenter 6.0 for Windows to VCSA 6.7 U1 and cannot get the SMTP notifications working.
Every treads I found about that kind of issue are for 6.5 or older and the solutions provided dont work.
In vSphere > Manage > General > Mail > Mail server, I tried both fqdn and IP address without success
I found this command to test mail from the appliance in SSH
echo "subject: sendmail test" | sendmail -v name@cie.com
Not shure how to understand the output...
I do see the errors (in red) witch normaly point to a misconfiguration on the mail server side but my Exchange server has a properly configured receive connector
name@cie.com... Connecting to 192.168.168.97. via relay...
220 mail.domain.local Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:01:36 -0500
>>> EHLO VCENTER.domain.local
250-mail.domain.local Hello [192.168.168.201]
250-SIZE 41943040
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH
250-8BITMIME
250-BINARYMIME
250 CHUNKING
>>> STARTTLS
220 2.0.0 SMTP server ready
>>> EHLO VCENTER.domain.local
250-mail.domain.local Hello [192.168.168.201]
250-SIZE 41943040
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-AUTH
250-8BITMIME
250-BINARYMIME
250 CHUNKING
>>> MAIL From:<root@VCENTER.domain.local> SIZE=23
250 2.1.0 Sender OK
>>> RCPT To:<name@cie.com>
>>> DATA
550 5.7.1 Unable to relay
503 5.5.2 Need rcpt command
>>> RSET
250 2.0.0 Resetting
root... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
220 VCENTER.domain.local ESMTP Sendmail 8.15.2/8.15.2; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:01:54 -0500
>>> EHLO VCENTER.domain.local
250-VCENTER.domain.local Hello VCENTER.domain.local [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH GSSAPI CRAM-MD5
250-STARTTLS
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> VERB
250 2.0.0 Verbose mode
>>> STARTTLS
220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
>>> EHLO VCENTER.domain.local
250-VCENTER.domain.local Hello VCENTER.domain.local [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-EXPN
250-VERB
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH GSSAPI CRAM-MD5
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
>>> VERB
250 2.0.0 Verbose mode
>>> MAIL From:<> SIZE=1047
250 2.1.0 <>... Sender ok
>>> RCPT To:<root@VCENTER.domain.local>
>>> DATA
250 2.1.5 <root@VCENTER.domain.locall>... Recipient ok
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
>>> .
050 <root@VCENTER.domain.local>... Connecting to local...
050 <root@VCENTER.domain.local>... Sent
250 2.0.0 wBDK1sHg037546 Message accepted for delivery
root... Sent (wBDK1sHg037546 Message accepted for delivery)
Closing connection to [127.0.0.1]
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 VCENTER.domain.local closing connection
Closing connection to 192.168.168.97.
>>> QUIT
221 2.0.0 Service closing transmission channel
You have new mail in /var/mail/root
Any help woud be appreciated
Not sure if these steps will work. I will try sometime next week,
https://www.ictstuff.info/vsphere-6-7-no-e-mail-notifications-from-vcenter/
Hi,
Error messages refer to the Exchange Server.
Just make sure that you have entered all the SMTP configuration data of the relay server and the user account with the permissions
Solved: Exchange SMTP Error 550 5.7.1 Unable To Relay
Configure Mail Sender Settings
Best Regards
Alessandro Romeo