Hello all,

I'm a newbie, so bear with me.

I've set up a Wordpress site using this very helpful guide -

https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/cm ... -wordpress

I have also installed a Contact Form 7 plugin which I use to create "contact me" forms. However, the form submissions fail to send out emails to my designated inbox (the error message was "Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method.")

Did I miss anything? I suspect that it may have to do with setting up mail servers. I am, however, using an external service (fastmail) for that domain.

I would appreciate any help, thank you very much!

Craig

You need a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), more commonly called a mailserver, to handle your mail. I suggest installing Postfix as it is reasonably straightforward and secure. You would want to put the following settings in /etc/postfix/main.cf:

myhostname = hostname.example.com
myorigin = $mydomain
inet_interfaces = loopback-only
mydestination =

The first line sets your hostname (customize for your actual case). The second sets addresses for mail coming from your webserver to be something@example.com. The third line tells Postfix not to listen for external network connections (i.e., it cannot receive mail from outside). The fourth specifies that there are no local addresses - that is, no mail has this machine as its final destination.

This should pretty much be it. If you run into trouble with Fastmail not accepting messages, you may want to look into the guide for using external SMTP servers.