On 11/28/2016 at 4:56 PM, "Bill Cole"
<postfixlists-070...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
>
>On 28 Nov 2016, at 17:29, rich.gre...@hushmail.com wrote:
>
>> I changed it. When I compose and send to an outside domain now,
>I get
>> an error that hints towards port 25 being strongly preferred
>over 587.
>>
>> Sending of the message failed.
>> The message could not be sent because connecting to Outgoing
>server
>> (SMTP) timothylegg.com failed. The server may be unavailable or
>is
>> refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your Outgoing
>server
>> (SMTP) settings are correct and try again.
>
>
>OK: this implies that you don't have a port 587 submission service
>running at all.
I did not. I opened 587 to the machine (I didn't realize it was closed)
I made modifications to the master.cf file.
>To get one, you need an entry similar to this in
>your
>master.cf file:
>
>submission inet n - n - - smtpd
> -o syslog_name=postfix/submit
I assume you mean -o syslog_name=postfix/submission, I did that.
> -o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt
> -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
> -o
>smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
> -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
>
>You can see the currently active entries from master.cf with
>"postconf
>-Mf" if you're running a reasonably modern version of Postfix.
>
Yep, it's reasonable modern. Double checking here.
smtp inet n - y - - smtpd
submission inet n - n - - smtpd
-o syslog_name=postfix/submission
-o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt
-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
-o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
>This has gone far past the point where it is essential for you to
>heed
>the recommendations in the last section of the DEBUG_README file
>(part
>of the Postfix distribution) which are also sent to new
>subscribers to
>this list, regarding how best to effectively seek assistance here.
Thanks for reminding me of this. I found the online copy and I love it when I
realize something in plain site that has been there forever without my noticing
it. (Like the tcpdump command. I'm going to play with that for sure.)
>Noel
>Jones suggested this to you almost 6 hours ago in a message which
>you
>replied to, and it is advice which has not gone obsolete in that
>time.
So the server and thunderbird are talking to each other. Apparently I don't
have a password to access the SMTP server I have running. This must be the
SASL authentication I've read about in the past. Dovecot/Squirrelmail
apparently are able to access it just fine, so I'll look in the config files
for it. It must be in there somewhere.
