Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Nullmailer on Ubuntu 12.04

2015-05-02 Thread David Patte ₯
Thanks. Actually, nullmailer is a message transfer agent, simply forwarding my mail to the smtp at my provider. And nullmailer is authenticating with my provider using a password. But it is not authenticating using STARTTLS. But I will verify whether others are able to send email through my

[OCLUG-Tech] Nullmailer on Ubuntu 12.04

2015-05-02 Thread David Patte ₯
Last year I decided to teach myself a bit about Linux and setup a Linux server at home. It is being used as a webserver, as well as having a c++ development toolchain. I also use it for developing 'Meteor' apps. In the past month, I have realized that some blacklists have decided to list my

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Nullmailer on Ubuntu 12.04

2015-05-02 Thread Bill Strosberg
David: From what Spamhaus is saying it means you have an open relay - allowing systems external to your network the ability to send mail from your server without any authentication. Basically this means you are accepting connections to use your server as a sender of anything without making sure

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Nullmailer on Ubuntu 12.04

2015-05-02 Thread Bill Strosberg
STARTTLS is an encrypted communication method using TLS - newer than SSL, but uses the same OpenSSL library. Basically an encrypted SSL connection is established between the server and client. Your MTA should be firewalled out of connections coming from your public IP address if there is no

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Nullmailer on Ubuntu 12.04

2015-05-02 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 10:30:51AM -0400, Bill Strosberg wrote: From what Spamhaus is saying it means you have an open relay - allowing systems external to your network the ability to send mail from your server without any authentication. Basically this means you are accepting connections to

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Nullmailer on Ubuntu 12.04

2015-05-02 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 11:27:19AM -0400, David Patte ₯ wrote: Actually, nullmailer is a message transfer agent, simply forwarding my mail to the smtp at my provider. And nullmailer is authenticating with my provider using a password. But it is not authenticating using STARTTLS. STARTTLS is

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Nullmailer on Ubuntu 12.04

2015-05-02 Thread David Patte ₯
On 2015-05-02 14:30, Alex Pilon wrote: On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 10:30:51AM -0400, Bill Strosberg wrote: From what Spamhaus is saying it means you have an open relay - allowing systems external to your network the ability to send mail from your server without any authentication. Basically this