Wietse Venema wrote, on 23-01-10 14:41: > Jelle de Jong: >> Can somebody show me an example how to setup up a simple outgoing only >> email configuration that uses SMTP AUTH over SSL? > > Postfix SASL: http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html > Postfix TLS: http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html > > These are organized in client and server sections, with examples. > There is no need to repeat this information on the mailing list.
Thank you Wietse for your fast response, seems the answer was so obvious and I should have found it with some internet searching. However it took me a good number of hours to get it actually working. There for I am writing down some pointers here so other people may find them in the mailinglist archives. I used Debian stable to install postfix with: apt-get install postfix ca-certificates # no configuration or satellite I received the following errors in my configuration: # (SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server secure.powercraft.nl[84.245.3.195]: no mechanism available) Seemed the configuration was fine but I was missing the actual libaries. So I installed: apt-get install libsasl2-modules Next pointer, for plain auth over ssl use the folllowing: postconf -e 'smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes' postconf -e 'smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd' postconf -e 'smtp_sasl_tls_security_options = noanonymous' postconf -e 'smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt' postconf -e 'smtp_tls_mandatory_protocols = !SSLv2, !TLSv1' On the server side use: smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, ... I still had one question of my own: I seem to be only able to use port 25 with postfix, my icedove mta uses secure.powercraft.nl:465 with ssl, but I cant get that to work with postfix. It will just generate an time-out after the connection. Port 25 is subjected to blocks and filters on a increasing number of networks, so I like to keep using other ports. If somebody found an solution for this, I would be happy to use it. Hope that helps some people :) Kind regards, Jelle
