On 30/08/2015 00:13, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I have an instance of Wheezy running on a VPS (for years) and only > now have decided I want to take advantage of the possibility of > using it as a smarthost for my home machines, instead of what my > cable company makes available, which I confess works just fine. > > For example, I have a Jessie system here at home running Alpine, > which is very flexible in how one may specify an SMTP host. Of > course, I don't need authentication (or the "submit" port) to use > my cable company's smarthost. But when I point alpine at my VPS > for smtp services (as it were) it tells me that authentication is > not offered, this despite my following to the letter (or so I > thought) the directions for setting up SASL on Postfix. > > I have cleared the way for port 587 "both ways" on both the VPS > and on my home router. Here's what happens (with phonied-up data): > > $ telnet boris.fuzzywuzzy.com 587 > Trying 12.34.123.123... > Connected to boris.fuzzywuzzy.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 boris.fuzzywuzzy.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) > ^]
Did you type the ^] ? But the ball's in your court—say hello. Type: ehlo summat where summat is the hostname you're on. You should see some 250 replies. Cheers, David.
