On 2021-10-20, Dave Voutila <[email protected]> wrote: > > [email protected] writes: > >> Hi, I'm new to openbsd having just set it up on my x200 and loving it >> (running so much better than my old distro). after reading through >> c0ffee's laptop set up guide and the afterboot man page i'm struggling >> to work out why i can't send mail through my mail account w smtpd. i >> have asked my provider for support about the issues i saw other people >> having (port 25 not being open) but they said that wasn't it and they >> were unsure about the problem. below i have linked to a paste of my >> smtpd.conf and my maillog. Personally i'm struggling to work out whats >> wrong from the log but i'm assuming i've not set something up right... >> >> maillog: http://ix.io/3ChF > > I looked at your log messages and the only thing I can think of is this > mail provider requires some auth approach smtpd doesn't support > (CRAM-Md5). It seems they're more interested in supporting mail clients > and not a relaying connection from an MTA is my guess. > > See: https://support.countermail.com/kb/faq.php?id=90
It's either/or, see the section marked 2 in red on that page
