Re: Configure Postfix *as* a smart host?
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.
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