[TriLUG] MTA to MTA through mail.trilug.org

[Chris Knowles]

Yeah, it's a shame about all those zombies making it hard for us
hobbyists. 

You should be able to use the SMTP servers of your ISP as a smarthost.
I run this successfully with RR using smtp-server.nc.rr.com.  I
presume/hope that this is the way things are with the other providers in
the area.

CJK

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 15:51 -0400, Ken Mink wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I run my own MTA at home. The number of places that won't excecpt mail from
> a dynamic IP address has gotten so large I really need to relay through a
> static IP. As a TriLUG member I figured I could do this through TriLUG. I am
> using postfix and got it configured to relay through mail.trilug.org.
> However, it is having trouble with the self signed cert that the TriLUG MTA
> is using. Does anyone know how to get postfix to accept the cert? Or is the
> problem with my login:password, which works from Thunderbird? Any insight
> would be appreciated.
> 
> Here's what's in my log:
> May 16 15:41:57 bwg3 postfix/smtp[12635]: certificate verification failed
> for mail.trilug.org: num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain
> May 16 15:41:57 bwg3 postfix/smtp[12635]: Server certificate could not be
> verified
> May 16 15:41:58 bwg3 postfix/smtp[12635]: 0A8474280D: to=<
> address at other.domain>, relay=mail.trilug.org[64.244.27.142], delay=2,
> status=deferred (Authentication failed: SASL authentication failed; server
> mail.trilug.org[64.244.27.142] said: 535 Error: authentication failed)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
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