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Fetchmail fails to deliver mail locally due to enforced STARTTLS

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I have setup a local mail server using postfix and dovecot. I now want fetchmail to get my mails from another server and deliver them locally. I am getting errors, however, since fetchmail does not use STARTTLS when connecting via SMTP to the local postfix: reading message 852 of 853 (18519 octets) (log message incomplete) SMTP> MAIL FROM: SIZE=18519 SMTP RSET According to this previous question this is because fetchmail does not support STARTTLS when talking to an SMTP server and states that it > is normally not a problem, as it usually delivers emails locally. I therefore conclude that my configuration is flawed in some way. I want connections to postfix to be secure when a MUA delivers mail but obviously I cannot enforce it if I want to use fetchmail. Is it the way to go to relax the security constraints in postfix's master.cf for SMTP and only enforce STARTTLS for SUBMISSION?
Asked by sigy (123 rep)
Mar 28, 2017, 08:46 PM
Last activity: Jul 10, 2020, 07:06 PM