From: Alex Feldman (alexalexfeldman.org)
Date: Wed May 21 2008 - 11:22:31 CDT

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Hi,

This is my first posting to this list, I did look in the archives but I
hope I didn't miss anything.

I just installed Fedora 9 on my computer at home. I had Fedora Core 5
with Postfix and TLS/SASL support previously. The reason I wanted it is
that I wanted to always have a secure smtp connection available to me
e.g. from my laptop so I could send mail without concern. My firewall
(iptables) left port 25 open, and it didn't appear to be a problem - I
had secure password protection over that channel.

I wanted to duplicate the system in Fedora 9. This time, however, I
just let the distribution or yum install Postfix and Cyrus-Sasl for me,
and that might be the root of my problems. I did, however use ldd to
see if sasl support was in postfix, and it appeared to be (libsasl2,
libssl, libcrypto) so I figured I didn't have to rebuild anything.

When I added the lines to main.cf that are given in the quick-and-dirty
TLS howto, it broke Postfix. Specifically, the line

 smtpd_tls_security_level = may

caused it to not respond to EHLO given to telnet.

So, do I have to rebuild both Postfix and Cyrus, or something else? If
the latter, do I use yum to erase them, and then download the tarballs
and do it the long way?

Thanks for any help.

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