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
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