On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 03:54:31AM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > Port 587 is not for inter-domain mail delivery. It is for submission > of mail by users (Outlook, Thunderbird, ...) to the outbound SMTP > server of their domain. If you're operating an MTA that sends mail > directly to remote domains, you MUST NOT use port 587.
To be precise, mail you *send* to remote domains MUST go *out* on port 25. You can of course also operate a submission service for users that *accepts* mail from your users on port 587. A submission service template is commented-out in the default Postfix master.cf file. -- Viktor.