Hello, I’ve setup a virtual server which works fine, now I’ve been trying for the last couple of hours to figure out why my emails wont send when I try to use mail clients like thunderbird and outlook, when they can receive just fine.
Outlook says it can’t cannot to the outgoing(SMTP) e-mail server. And Thunderbird just times out.
The server is a remote dedicated pc runing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and no ports should be blocked.
This is what my mail.log shows when attempting setting up the account in outlook
May 29 13:09:52 sd-99002 dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=1.2.3.4, lip=5.6.7.8, mpid=26682, TLS, session=
May 29 13:09:53 sd-99002 dovecot: imap(username): Connection closed (IDLE running for 0.001 + waiting input for 0.048 secs, 2 B in + 10+0 B out, state=wait-input) in=11 out=366
When I try to telnet to the ports locally it works, but when I try remotely I just get “Could not open connection to the host, on port 25: Connect failed”. But a site like This shows that the ports are open. I can telnet to port 80 just fine.
I’ve looked through a lot of different forum posts with similar issues but none of the solutions brought fourth have been fruitful.
I’ll be very gratefull for any help, and can ofcourse get more information if needed.
Thank you.
This is my master.cf
Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format
of the file, see the master(5) manual page (command: “man 5 master” or
on-line: http://www.postfix.org/master.5.html).
Do not forget to execute “postfix reload” after editing this file.
==========================================================================
service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args
(yes) (yes) (no) (never) (100)
==========================================================================
smtp inet n - y - - smtpd -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
#smtp inet n - y - 1 postscreen
#smtpd pass - - y - - smtpd
#dnsblog unix - - y - 0 dnsblog
#tlsproxy unix - - y - 0 tlsproxy
#submission inet n - y - - smtpd
-o syslog_name=postfix/submission
-o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt
-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
-o smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient=no
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=$mua_client_restrictions
-o smtpd_helo_restrictions=$mua_helo_restrictions
-o smtpd_sender_restrictions=$mua_sender_restrictions
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=
-o smtpd_relay_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
-o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
#smtps inet n - y - - smtpd
-o syslog_name=postfix/smtps
-o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes
-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
-o smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient=no
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=$mua_client_restrictions
-o smtpd_helo_restrictions=$mua_helo_restrictions
-o smtpd_sender_restrictions=$mua_sender_restrictions
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=
-o smtpd_relay_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
-o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
#628 inet n - y - - qmqpd
pickup unix n - y 60 1 pickup
cleanup unix n - y - 0 cleanup
qmgr unix n - n 300 1 qmgr
#qmgr unix n - n 300 1 oqmgr
tlsmgr unix - - y 1000? 1 tlsmgr
rewrite unix - - y - - trivial-rewrite
bounce unix - - y - 0 bounce
defer unix - - y - 0 bounce
trace unix - - y - 0 bounce
verify unix - - y - 1 verify
flush unix n - y 1000? 0 flush
proxymap unix - - n - - proxymap
proxywrite unix - - n - 1 proxymap
smtp unix - - y - - smtp
relay unix - - y - - smtp
-o smtp_helo_timeout=5 -o smtp_connect_timeout=5
showq unix n - y - - showq
error unix - - y - - error
retry unix - - y - - error
discard unix - - y - - discard
local unix - n n - - local
virtual unix - n n - - virtual
lmtp unix - - y - - lmtp
anvil unix - - y - 1 anvil
scache unix - - y - 1 scache
====================================================================
Interfaces to non-Postfix software. Be sure to examine the manual
pages of the non-Postfix software to find out what options it wants.
Many of the following services use the Postfix pipe(8) delivery
agent. See the pipe(8) man page for information about ${recipient}
and other message envelope options.
====================================================================
maildrop. See the Postfix MAILDROP_README file for details.
Also specify in main.cf: maildrop_destination_recipient_limit=1
maildrop unix - n n - - pipe
flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient}
====================================================================
Recent Cyrus versions can use the existing “lmtp” master.cf entry.
Specify in cyrus.conf:
lmtp cmd=“lmtpd -a” listen=“localhost:lmtp” proto=tcp4
Specify in main.cf one or more of the following:
mailbox_transport = lmtp:inet:localhost
virtual_transport = lmtp:inet:localhost
====================================================================
Cyrus 2.1.5 (Amos Gouaux)
Also specify in main.cf: cyrus_destination_recipient_limit=1
#cyrus unix - n n - - pipe
user=cyrus argv=/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user}
====================================================================
Old example of delivery via Cyrus.
#old-cyrus unix - n n - - pipe
flags=R user=cyrus argv=/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -m ${extension} ${user}
====================================================================
See the Postfix UUCP_README file for configuration details.
uucp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fqhu user=uucp argv=uux -r -n -z -a$sender - $nexthop!rmail ($recipient)
Other external delivery methods.
ifmail unix - n n - - pipe
flags=F user=ftn argv=/usr/lib/ifmail/ifmail -r $nexthop ($recipient)
bsmtp unix - n n - - pipe
flags=Fq. user=bsmtp argv=/usr/lib/bsmtp/bsmtp -t$nexthop -f$sender $recipient
scalemail-backend unix - n n - 2 pipe
flags=R user=scalemail argv=/usr/lib/scalemail/bin/scalemail-store ${nexthop} ${user} ${extension}
mailman unix - n n - - pipe
flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py
${nexthop} ${user}
submission inet n - y - - smtpd -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
And this is my main.cf
# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version
Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first
line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Ubuntu)
biff = no
appending .domain is the MUA’s job.
append_dot_mydomain = no
Uncomment the next line to generate “delayed mail” warnings
#delay_warning_time = 4h
readme_directory = no
TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/postfix/postfix.cert.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/postfix/postfix.key.pem
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.
smtpd_relay_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated defer_unauth_destination
myhostname = sd-99002.dedibox.fr
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination = $myhostname, sd-99002, localhost.dedibox.fr, localhost
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail-wrapper -o -a $DOMAIN -d $LOGNAME
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_protocols = all
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual
sender_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/bcc
sender_dependent_default_transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/dependent
home_mailbox = Maildir/
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject_unauth_destination
allow_percent_hack = no
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtpd_tls_mandatory_protocols = SSLv3, TLSv1
smtpd_tls_mandatory_ciphers = high
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/postfix.ca.pem
mynetworks_style = subnet
mydomain = dedibox.fr
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes