Re: SMTP relaying from Android

On 2016-09-15 13:53, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Shepherd,
> 
> 
> On 2016-09-15 21:23, Shepherd Nhongo wrote:
>> What does your server logs say when you try to send mail from your app 
>> ?
> 
> 
> I don't even get that far - when I try to setup the Android app with
> the server name; Security type = None and port = 25, I get:
> 
> "Unable to connect to email server to verify your account information.
> No response from server."
> 
> If I ignore that message and try to send an email, nothing ever arrives 
> . .
> 
> 
>> Again so can you telnet into your server and run ehlo anydomain.com
>> and post results
> 
> 
> # telnet pricom.com.au 25
> Trying 110.142.211.14...
> Connected to pricom.com.au.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> ehlo anydomain.com
> 220 pricom.com.au ESMTP
> 250-pricom.com.au
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE 0
> 250 AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.

Hi Phil,

I can telnet your server from my smartphone, but a "mail from" command 
is blocked through barracuda RBL. This seems to be ok because of the 
dynamic IP.

regards
Kai
> 
> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On 15 Sep 2016, at 12:41 PM, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> People,
>>> 
>>> I use RoundCubeMail as a webmail client to my QMail server and this 
>>> works really nicely when I am on the LAN.  There is a RCM client for 
>>> Android that works via HTTPS to my server for both reading and 
>>> sending but it is a very kludgey app.  The standard Android app works 
>>> very nicely for reading mail - the incoming server is set up with the 
>>> server name and:
>>> 
>>>  SSL - Accepts all Certification
>>> 
>>> and port:
>>> 
>>>  993
>>> 
>>> via IMAP but I can't work out how to set up outgoing mail.  The 
>>> Android app wants an outgoing SMTP server and I have tried messing 
>>> around with the security types:
>>> 
>>>  None
>>>  SSL
>>>  SSL - Accepts all Certification
>>>  TLS
>>>  TLS - Accepts all Certification
>>> 
>>> and ports:
>>> 
>>>  25
>>>  587
>>>  993
>>> 
>>> but couldn't get anything to work.  I could configure relaying to 
>>> allow a remote host with a static IP to send mail via plain SMTP to 
>>> my server but not for my phone ie part of /etc/tcp.smtp:
>>> 
>>>  107.170.210.205:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""    # works
>>>  101.119.20.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""        # Vodafone fails - looks 
>>> like an IP problem?
>>> 
>>> I don't want to be forced back to HTTPS with the RCM app - any 
>>> suggestions about how to fix the SMTP sending?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Phil.
>>> --
>>> Philip Rhoades
>>> 
>>> PO Box 896
>>> Cowra  NSW  2794
>>> Australia
>>> E-mail:  [email protected]

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