Hi,

Can I see in my log if an outgoing mail to an external server was encrypted?

Our postfix logs something like this for outgoing connections:

2025-12-10T00:05:12.267944+01:00 postbote postfix/smtp[2835939]: Trusted TLS connection established to mail.xxxxxxxxxx[185.xxx.xxx.xxx]:25: TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)

This is postfix/smtp, not smtpd as in your e-mail.


postfix/smtpd handles incoming connections. Looks here like this:

2025-12-10T00:05:17.608532+01:00 postbote postfix/smtpd[2835935]: Anonymous TLS connection established from xxxxxxxx[81.xxxxxxx]: TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)

So your piece of log is an incoming connection, not secured by tls and using plain authentication (sasl_method=plain).

Groetjes
   Claus




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Claus R. Wickinghoff, Dipl.-Ing.
using Linux since 1994 and still happy... :-)

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