Re: SMTP relaying from Android

Philip Rhoades <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.qmail.general
Message-ID <33390a65c7fbaf5ebe80200d8ae6ea81@localhost>
People,


On 2016-09-17 01:27, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> Many thanks for all the responses - I really appreciate it! - I am
> indeed checking out all the options as time allows . . there seems to
> have been a flowering of different variants of qmail recently! - which
> all seem to be very well made and reasonably pain-free to install but
> with their own advantages and disadvantages - I probably should do a
> Google Docs Spreadsheet comparison where people could put "1"s next to
> each compared option to see which variant suits them best?


I have started doing this here - in case anyone wants to help me build 
it:

   
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Pj30OWYkbF3a5f8V6h2pTRCIabuzYYYcHu9pjcKg63o/edit#gid=0

P.


> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> 
> On 2016-09-16 18:21, Pascal Nobus wrote:
>> Phil,
>> 
>> after more then 10 years good old Qmail (with many patches in the
>> mean-time), I had almost the same problem as you.
>> 
>> 
>> Tried a few packages (eqmail, indimail), and ended up with sqmail 
>> (they
>> also got ucspi with SSL-support).
>> I'm running now sqmail very smoothly and stable, it got SSL (in/out) 
>> and
>> IPv6, both thing mandatory in the coming years.
>> 
>> 
>> Just take a look:
>> http://www.fehcom.de/sqmail/sqmail.html
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Pascal
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Op 16-09-16 om 09:58 schreef Thibault Richard:
>>> 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 <http://dev.qmailrocks.org> it could help
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Shepherd
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 15 Sep 2016, at 3:04 PM, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[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 ...
>>> 
>>>         Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>             On 15 Sep 2016, at 1:53 PM, Philip Rhoades
>>>             <[email protected] <mailto:[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 <http://anydomain.com>
>>> 
>>>                 and post results
>>> 
>>>             # telnet pricom.com.au <http://pricom.com.au> 25
>>> 
>>>             Trying 110.142.211.14...
>>> 
>>>             Connected to pricom.com.au <http://pricom.com.au>.
>>> 
>>>             Escape character is '^]'.
>>> 
>>>             ehlo anydomain.com <http://anydomain.com>
>>> 
>>>             220 pricom.com.au <http://pricom.com.au> ESMTP
>>> 
>>>             250-pricom.com.au <http://250-pricom.com.au>
>>> 
>>>             250-PIPELINING
>>> 
>>>             250-8BITMIME
>>> 
>>>             250-SIZE 0
>>> 
>>>             250 AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
>>> 
>>>             Thanks,
>>> 
>>>             Phil.
>>> 
>>>                 Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>                     On 15 Sep 2016, at 12:41 PM, Philip Rhoades
>>>                     <[email protected] <mailto:[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] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> 
>>>             --
>>> 
>>>             Philip Rhoades
>>> 
>>>             PO Box 896
>>> 
>>>             Cowra  NSW  2794
>>> 
>>>             Australia
>>> 
>>>             E-mail:  [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> 
>>> 
>>>     --
>>>     Philip Rhoades
>>> 
>>>     PO Box 896
>>>     Cowra  NSW  2794
>>>     Australia
>>>     E-mail:  [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> 

-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  [email protected]
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