Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
We value your experience with Plesk during 2025 Plesk strives to perform even better in 2026. To help us improve further, please answer a few questions about your experience with Plesk Obsidian 2025. Please take this short survey: https://survey.webpros.com/
On Plesk for Linux mod_status is disabled on upgrades to improve Apache security. This is a one-time operation that occurs during an upgrade. You can manually enable mod_status later if needed.
I added and rerun the cron:
It is still unable to send (/var/log/maillog):
Apr 22 17:15:02 plesk msmtp: host=smtp.sendgrid.net tls=on auth=on user=apikey from=root@plesk.xxdomain.com recipients=admin@xxdomain.com smtpstatus=550 smtpmsg='550 The from address does not match a verified Sender...
That's good to know.
Anyway, in my /var/log/maillog, that email was having this entry:
Apr 22 06:25:28 plesk msmtp: host=smtp.sendgrid.net tls=on auth=on user=apikey from=root@plesk.xxdomain.com recipients=admin@xxdomain.com mailsize=11421 smtpstatus=250 smtpmsg='250 Ok: queued as xxxxxx...
This is puzzling. I received an email from my Plesk server today for the first time...!
From: admin@xxdomain.com
To: admin@xxdomain.com
So what does that mean?
Manual msmtp and Sendmail >> Works
Cron job msmtp >> Didn't work
...and now this email above? Should this email be sending from...
Yes I have tried this option:
Here is the output when I ran the same command
# cat /tmp/testmail.txt | sendmail -oi -t
sendmail: cannot use a secure authentication method
sendmail: could not send mail (account default from /etc/msmtprc)
Here's the output of /var/log/maillog:
Apr 22 14:39:01...
@Nik G noted on the cron.
For another test, I have this testmail.txt:
------------------------
To: mypersonal@hotmail.com
From: root@plesk.xxdomain.com
Subject: Test email
Hello there.
------------------------
Testing without 'echo', here's what I ran:
date -u >> testmail.txt && cat...
Yes, I ran the msmtp utility commands on:
from:root@plesk.xxdomain.com to:admin@xxdomain.com (Plesk Administrator's email)
from:root@plesk.xxdomain.com to:mypersonal@hotmail.com (to my personal hotmail)
Both test emails are received in respective email account Inbox.
Here's the...
@Nik G Thank you for the guides provided. So far the nslookup values seems able to retrieve.
I saw a comment in https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001743034-How-to-configure-an-external-SMTP-server-in-Plesk and there's a command to test using the msmtp utility with debug, so I ran...
@mow both domains (xxdomain.com & plesk.xxdomain.com) have been Domain Authenticated within Sendgrid, and respective MX record, CNAME, TXT record are added to DNS.
The Sendgrid telnet test was done on the Plesk server, and no issues creating a test email as root@plesk.xxdomain.com to my email...
Hi,
This is my first post in the forum, just getting started on Plesk.
My Plesk configuration:
Digital Ocean (Plesk Hosting | DigitalOcean Marketplace 1-Click App)
OS = Ubuntu 20.04
Plesk = Version 18.0.42 Update #1
I am having issues getting the external SMTP server to work for my Plesk...