Configuring Gmail as SMTP Relay on Elastix
Elastix uses Postfix, and getting Postfix configured to use Gmail as a SMTP Relay has been incredibly painful to do. This should not be as difficult as it turned out to be, but here is what I had to do to get things working.
Edit the /etc/postfix/main.cf file
nano /etc/postfix/main.cf
Change these lines to your external domain and the name of your elastix server:
################################ #Ingresado por yb-webadmin mydomain = myrealdomain.gotdns.org myhostname = elastix.myrealdomain.gotdns.org
Change the following line
#relayhost = [an.ip.add.ress]to
relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587
Create a new file /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd and put the following line in it
[smtp.gmail.com]:587 loginname@gmail.com:password
Then run the following command
postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
Create a directory /etc/postfix/certs. Generate a self-signed certificate as follows
cd /etc/postfix/certs openssl req -new -x509 -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 365 openssl genrsa -out gm.key 1024 openssl req -new -key gm.key -out gm.csr openssl ca -cert cacert.pem -keyfile cakey.pem -out ./gm.pem -infiles gm.csr
If you get an error that says something like
Could not open directory ../../CA/newcerts
then do the following before you run the commands above
mkdir -p ../../CA/newcerts touch ../../CA/index.txt echo "01" >> ../../CA/serial
and after you are done, you can remove the above directory using
rm -rf ../../CA
Add the following lines to /etc/postfix/main.cf
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = smtp_use_tls = yes smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtp_sasl_tls_security_options = noanonymous smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom smtp_tls_scert_verifydepth = 5 smtp_tls_key_file=/etc/postfix/certs/gm.key smtp_tls_cert_file=/etc/postfix/certs/gm.pem smtpd_tls_ask_ccert = yes smtpd_tls_req_ccert =no smtp_tls_enforce_peername = no
And finally run
postfix reload
Check your setup by sending a test email
mail myself@myemail.comAnd check the logs for anything going wrong
tail -f /var/log/maillog
How to Choose a Doctor
Having a child is a exhilarating experience. Dealing with the health system in this country however, evokes the exact opposite emotion. One of the most traumatic experiences we had to revisit with the birth of our child was to pick a doctor, a pediatrician, for him and a OB/GYN for my wife. For myself, it was never really an issue, as I rarely visited the doctor. With a pregnancy and a child however, the doctor is critical, as we are likely to see that person a lot more than our parents 
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