From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 18:45:34 CST

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James Cloos:
> I?ve been using auth over a STARTTLS connection to send my outgoing
> mail to my relayhost, but have to change that to avoid using port 25
> due to post blocking along the path between my (highly mobile) laptop
> and my relayhost.
>
> I tried just adding the submission or smtps port to the relayhost
> declaration on the laptop (currently running 2.2.0 and due for a
> bump to 2.2.2) but that ? as you might imagine ? failed; smtpd
> was expecting TLS and smtp was expecting STARTTLS.

Then don't turn on the TLS wrapper mode in master.cf.

> I?ve searched thru the docs w/o finding the solution.
>
> How do you configure main.cf so that smtps rather than STARTTLS
> on smtp is used for the relayhost?

The Postfix SMTP client does not support TLS wrapper mode. This
use of TLS is deprecated.

        Wietse

> Do I need a new entry in master.cf similar to the submission or
> smtps entries currently there for the server-side? And specify
> that as the transport? Or is there anohter way?
>
> I?m sure I?m missing something obvious. ?
>
> -JimC
> --
> James H. Cloos, Jr. <cloosjhcloos.com>
>
>

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