[Workaround.org] trying to use SSL or TLS for allowing relay (STEP 9)

Claus C Pörtner cportner at u.washington.edu
Wed Jan 23 19:52:59 CET 2008


Just a thought on SSL and Thunderbird: Did you specify port 993 when 
trying to imap from Thunderbird into your mailserver (and have it open 
in your firewall/router)? Also, you may have to add the following to 
your dovecot.conf:

protocol imap {
  ...
login_greeting_capability = yes
imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep
}

I use Thunderbird and SSL and that works.

Claus

PS Is your main question about using a relayhost, or simply sending from 
outside?

Yannick Campana - SiCTiAM - wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> Firstly, I'd like to thanks Christoph Haas for this real great tutorial! 
> 
> I'm having a serious problem: I'm trying to use postfix to allow relaying
> with secure connection on my Debian 4 Etch !
> 
> I've follow every step line by line .Using username/password with no secure
> connection is working fine but when I try to use TLS, I always receive the
> same message (from thunderbird) stating that I have no STARTTLS in the
> response to the ehlo command (confirm that by making it in telnet, no 250 -
> STARTTLS like in screenshot of the tutorial).
> 
> 
> Im my syslog , I get :
> 
> Jan 23 01:15:00 stela postfix/smtpd[3081]: connect from unknown[X.X.X.X]
> Jan 23 01:15:00 stela postfix/smtpd[3081]: disconnect from unknown[X.X.X.X]
> 
> 
> Parameters in my main.cf concerning TLS:
> 
> # TLS parameters
> smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/postfix.pem
> smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/postfix.pem
> smtpd_use_tls = yes
> smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
> smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache
> 
> [...]
> smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
> smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
> permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject_unauth_destination
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I have tried several times in several VMware server and always the same
> behavior!
> 
> Thanks in advanced for any further help; I'm really going crazy with this
> annoying problem.
> 
> 
> Y.Campana
> 
> 
> 
> NB :If I try to use SSL (always with thunderbird) I get a connection failed
> !!!
> 
> 
> 
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