Mailcow SMTP for contact forms

mohaabed7586

Hello,
im new to installing mailcow, so please bare with me!

So im running a Ubuntu VPS, and i have created a contact form and a booking form for my client. But my issue im having is i cant send out emails from my forms to my client own mail adress. So i dont own this mail adress. How do i setup my contact form to “tunnel” through my mail server to be able to send out the contact form details etc. to my “external” email adress with mailcow? I figured that i would need to re-do my mail.php to send with the method “phpmailer”.

I’m also having this issue with another client, which uses wordpress, but just discovered that there is a plugin for that, so will try that out.

Please could somebody recommend how i would setup for my form to send out mails through my mail server so it can reach the destination mail? How do i setup the regular SMTP settings for my phpmailer?

Best regards,
Mohammed

BornDeranged

Hello
not entirely sure if I understood you well, but

define an email account (userid/password) in Mailcow to use for your forms
in your forms, use this account to log into Mailcow
in your forms, whenever you need to send a mail, use this account as sender, and the client’s email address as your destination.

This is assuming you don’t want your mails to appear to come from your client’s address (not sure about that). If that’s the case, then you don’t absolutely need Mailcow, but you should use an account at your client’s mail server.

esackbauer

You seem also to be new with contact forms 😉
The contact form will send an email to the recipient which you have configured.
The question is which “from address” this mail should have. It can’t be the one which the customer filled in the form.
if you use your mail domain as sender, you can configure your mailcow host.
If you must use the mail address of the customer, you need to configure his mailserver and credentials.