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Re: Cool things to do with server



On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:29:07 +0000, Dan Purgert wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:30:24 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote:
> 
>> On 03/17/2015 06:05 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
>>>
>>> Set your t-bird to use "STARTTLS" for the outgoing server.  Fixed it
>>> for me when I ran into that problem.
>>>
>>> There's probably a fix in either postfix or dovecot, but from what I
>>> can see, there's no real security concerns over explicitly starting a
>>> TLS session (via STARTTLS) vs. using implicit TLS.
>>>
>>>
>> did that, now when I try to send an email I get:
>> 
>> ---
>> An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:  5.1.1
>> <epicblood@gmail.com>: Recipient address rejected: gmail.com. Please
>> check the message recipient epicblood@gmail.com and try again.
>> ---
>> 
>> 
> 
> The error is because it can't send to "epicblood@gmail.com" for some
> reason or other (e.g. you spelled it wrong).
> 
> 1. Check the email address and make sure you've spelled it right 2.
> Check the main.cf file to ensure your domain and mail server name are
> correct.
> 3. Check that the "my networks" setting is also correct (if you're using
> dovecot / sasl auth already, then it should be 127.0.0.0/8.



Ugh, scratch this one -- just saw your other comment about having your 
transport set to 'error'.   Good deal that you sorted it out :)


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