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

[Ben Pitzer]

Huh?  You must be kidding....

I worked for TWC until about a year ago.  Believe you me, they don't have
the infrastructure to store your outbound email.  In fact, with the
difficulty of keeping up with an ever growing customer base, they're barely
able to keep up with the requirements to store your inbound email.  Frankly,
I would not have been working there if they were doing all of that Big
Brother crap, nor would half of my coworkers, most likely.

-Ben Pitzer

On 5/16/06, Ken Mink <ken.mink at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/16/06, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/16/06, Ken Mink <ken.mink at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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)
> >
> > Ken,
> >
> > While it is try that you have an SSL error, that's not what's stopping
> > your email from going through.  The last message is what's causing
> > trilug not to relay.  As all good e-mail servers are configured, the
> > TriLUG
> > mail server is configured to NOT relay mail, except in one very special
> > circumstance.  That circumstance is when you've authenticated with
> > a valid username and password (alternatively, I think it may relay when
> > mail is sent from localhost too, but we may want to reconsider that).
> > So, your postfix must be configured with your username and password
> > for the TriLUG mail server to relay.  This means you will have to store
> > it in plaintext on your server at home and that, sadly, is a violation
> > of the TriLUG Terms of Service (or at least it would be if we had
> > ever written them down completely).  So, I would suggest what
> > Chris suggested that you relay through the RoadRunner SMTP
> > servers, since that's what they're their for when you have RR service.
>
>
> I understand that postfix needs to be set up for an authenticated
> connection. I believe I've got that configured correctly with the
> smtp_sasl_password_maps
> variable. But I guess not.
>
> As for using RR was a relay, I'm slightly tinfoil hatish and I don't want
> RR
> storing every email I send.
>
> Oh well, thanks for the help.
>
> Ken
>
> Cheers,
> > Tanner
> > P.S. TriLUG switched to a CACert SSL Cert for the web server
> > during the last meeting but we should now also go ahead and
> > do the same thing for smtp, imap and pop too at some point.
> > One more thing to add to the agenda of the soon to be formed
> > Sys Admin committee?
> >
> > --
> > Tanner Lovelace
> > clubjuggler at gmail dot com
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> > (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an
> > increscent, all sable.
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