No SSL for SMTP? happening on new server

[jimr1]

@briand

it is not timing out

@Joe

You should check to see if you can make an outgoing connection on port 25 from your server.

@Joe wanted you to test an outbound connection from your server not an inbound connection assuming that ns3.fife.biz is your server

[briand]

ah, thanks for that, I’d better read things properly

telnet mail.virtualmin.com 25
Trying 45.76.233.251…
Connected to mail.virtualmin.com.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
220 n1.virtualmin.com ESMTP Postfix

[briand]

I’ve now got items in mail queue, but there seems to be a permission problem,
I’m making a right mess of this :o)

postcat -vq 0041127801B1
postcat: name_mask: ipv4
postcat: inet_addr_local: configured 3 IPv4 addresses
postcat: fatal: open queue file 0041127801B1: Permission denied

[stefan1959]

Click into mail queue and what errors do you see

[briand]

there are no errors showing, however, have SOLVED it.

Postfix mails stuck in queue

yes right, postfix isn’t trying to send the message.

smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
This doesn’t need to be enabled unless you’re using a relay. Try changing that to:
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no

during this process I had tried setting this to yes due to “Use SSL for SMTP? NO”
as I had thought it needed to be set (as it was on other server)

emails are now sent - phew!

thanks everybody for your help.
my fault in some simple mistakes

[stefan1959]

Yeah, that’s been discussed before on this forum, that why don’t touch postfix config unless you are sure what it does.

[briand]

to be fair though, it wasn’t working after install. so I had to look into it. I made couple mistakes which masked issues further, but agree shows you have to be very careful..

I did a transfer of that domain across from old server so maybe that is what caused the problem.

thanks again for help and advice.

[Joe]

Everything works if you let it.