How to setup SMTP relay mail server on Pogoplug V2?

[jeajea]

I have a router (Zyxel USG50) than can send an email when its log is full or for “alert” conditions. However, it doesn’t support a SSL connection. I would like the router to send the emails to the Pogoplug without SSL and for the Pogoplug to relay (forward) the emails to my Gmail account using SSL. If this can be done what packages do I need to install?

[pepedog]

Maybe postfix. webmin may help you configure more easily

[WarheadsSE]

Postfix + Google as a forwarder is easy

[jeajea]

Setting up postfix may be simple, but the examples I have found so far are fairly complicated because they assume you are setting up a complete mail server for a domain. So far I have verified openssl is already installed, installed postfix, and created a self-signed certificate. I also installed webmin but it doesn’t appear to know postfix.

[WarheadsSE]

Yeah.. Not all of that is needed.

Google 'postfix relay Google smtp'

[jeajea]

Thanks - I have trhe relay working

I found this sight which has good instructions/examples.

http://rtcamp.com/tutorials/ubuntu-postfix-gmail-smtp/

The only thing I had to change was the command to create the Cert from

cat /etc/ssl/certs/Thawte_Premium_Server_CA.pem | sudo tee -a /etc/postfix/cacert

to

cat /etc/ssl/certs/Thawte_Premium_Server_CA.pem | tee -a /etc/postfix/cacert.pem

[WarheadsSE]

In my case I didn't bother with the cert. It acts only as a client to Gmail, thus doesn't need it's own cert, and only listens on localhost