Re: SMTP relaying from Android

Well done Richard.

I will also review your guide and recommend it to others in the future.

 

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> On 16 Sep 2016, at 9:58 AM, Thibault Richard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>  
> > Eric has qmailrocks but it's way too old and hardly updated . Maybe look at dev.qmailrocks.org it could help
>  
> I’ve made my own version for Debian which is available on http://qmailrocks.thibs.com/
>  
> About the question itself, you can take a look on http://qmailrocks.thibs.com/test-qmail.php and start reading at “Sending e-mail through an authentificate connection : Testing TLS”. It describes some test to do on your server to check which methods are available to use your server to send mail.
>  
> You can :
>  
> -Accept relaying mail based on the IP (I strongly discourage it) without authentication
> -Accept relaying through port TCP 25 after authentication (“Sending e-mail through an authentificate connection : Testing TLS” on my page)
> -Accept relaying through port TCP 465 authenticated from the beginning of the session
>  
> Best Regards
>  
> Thibault
>  
> From: Shepherd Nhongo [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: jeudi 15 septembre 2016 15:20
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Qmail List
> Subject: Re: SMTP relaying from Android
>  
> Yes you need to do that . Your webserver's SSL certificate is good to help encrypt your web server and your smtp service needs that too...
>  
> Take a look at John Simpson's website it does really have good information to help you through http://qmail.jms1.net/
>  
> Eric has qmailrocks but it's way too old and hardly updated . Maybe look at dev.qmailrocks.org it could help
>  
> Regards
>  
> Shepherd 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 15 Sep 2016, at 3:04 PM, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 2016-09-15 22:09, Shepherd Nhongo wrote:
> 
> It Looks like you do not have the ssl service running on your server
> or your email installation is not compiled to run with ssl
> Can you run the cmd
> #svstat /service/qmail-smtpd-ssl /service/qmail-smtpd-ssl/log
> If yes then what do you get when you tail the qmail-smtpd-ssl log . See below
> #tail -f /service/qmail-smtpd-ssl/log/main/current
> 
> 
> # svstat /service/qmail-smtpd-ssl /service/qmail-smtpd-ssl/log
> /service/qmail-smtpd-ssl: unable to chdir: file does not exist
> /service/qmail-smtpd-ssl/log: unable to chdir: file does not exist
> 
> Hmm . . I have a certificate installed but I think it is only working for HTTPS . . so it looks like I need to work out how to use it for SMTP as well . . back to Google I guess . .
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> 
> 
> Or do
> #taill -n 50 /service/qmail-smtpd-ssl/log/main/current
> To see the last fifty lines on the ssl log ...
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> On 15 Sep 2016, at 1:53 PM, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> 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.
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> 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.
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