: My VPS cannot send email Webmaster Newbie Question I have a low end vps (128MB RAM)running on Debian.I used a bash script by ilevkov to setup the site. After some trial and error, I managed

@Annie201

You'll probably need to configure a mail server which is more complicated than using a bash script. You can do that following these instructions

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@XinRu657

I figured it out. The problem is not in the bash script by @ILevkov , but on the exim4 pre configuration. Since exim4 is already installed, it isn't being re configured by the script. At least that's what I thought . Please correct me I'm wrong

All I have to do is to remove the previos exim4

apt-get purge exim4


And then reinstall using @Ilevkov well written bash script

bash setup-debian.sh exim4


Thank you all for your time.

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@Correia994

I’ve checked it again, should work out of the box.

In case it doesn’t:


Try this thread: wordpress.org/support/topic/users-not-receiving-activation-email
Try reinstalling Exim4 – “bash setup-debian.sh exim4”
Try installing Postfix instead Exim.


There is also a new version of lowendscript made by Xeoncross - github.com/Xeoncross/lowendscript

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@Carla537

From the script's readme file:

"Remove excess packages (apache2, sendmail, bind9, samba, nscd, etc) and install the basic components needed for a light-weight HTTP(S) web server..."

So this is your problem. You need to install those packages again, especially sendmail.

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