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Postfix: Mail servers of certain providers are unable to send mail to my Postfix server / insufficient security / SSL alert number 71

There is big German email hoster (web.de) whose mail servers are not able to send mails to my self-hosted Postfix server. I found similar reports, but the published solutions always were misconfigured ...
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Redirect OR warn (during initial negotiation) SMTP submitters to use TLS on port 587 - leave 25 explicitly blocked by firewall for better security [closed]

I've managed to find a lot of closely related information, but not an answer truly addressing my question. I am expanding on my homelab server, and have decided to use a small publicly hosted server ...
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nmap vulnerability scan reports " smtps on port 465 ssl-dh-params" vulnerability, on Ubuntu 20.04 webserver. How to close the vulnerabilty?

I am running an Ubuntu 20.04 LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MariaDb, PHP) email/web server. I am also doing some nmap vulnerability tests form my MacOS Client machine. On MacOS, I am using Oh My Zsh! with the ...
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Send test mail using telnet via smtps (465) port

Based on this guide I am trying to send a test email using telnet from linux https://linuxconfig.org/send-an-email-using-telnet but the connection immediately disconnects: $ telnet smtp.gmail.com 465 ...
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Postfix encryption not available

EDIT #2 What's this error? Aug 17 02:27:19 mail postfix/smtpd[1197]: lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[x.x.x.x] Aug 17 02:27:19 mail postfix/smtpd[1197]: disconnect from unknown[x.x.x.x] Aug ...
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Postfix smtp relay can send emails but not relay other hosts

Use Case: We have several Eaton PDU/PSUs that don't support SSL/TLS authentication. I was tasked with building a SMTP relay server that can take the basic SMTP/25 emails and forward them to our email ...
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How to set up DKIM using Let's Encrypt?

For long time I'm using Let's encrypt for all my encrypted services (HTTPS, IMAPS, SMTPS, FTPS). Now I want to add DKIM signature for my mail server. But is this possible using Let's Encrypt? I have ...
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How can i redirect smtp port 25 to port 465 [closed]

I have Exchnage server ,I can receive emails But I can not send emails out of the domain because Port 25 is block in ISP How can i redirect smtp port 25 to SMTPS port 465 ?
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Do any reputable mail servers require STARTTLS encryption for SMTP delivery?

Are there any large, reputable MTAs (like gmail, hotmail, icloud, etc) that will bounce mail or otherwise fail to deliver if the receiving MTA doesn't support STARTTLS? Put another way, will ...
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RFC for "Received: With ESMTPS"

Email Received: headers often say "With ESMTPS" but this phrase seems to have no standard describing it. is there an RFC for Protocol ESMTPS? RFC5321 only lists SMTP and ESMTP
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CentOS 7 - SMTPS on Postfix is not working right

First, I am a CentOS 7 newbie. I am running an email server on CentOS 7, I am currently having issue with setting SMTPS up on postfix. BTW, imap over SSL on port 993 is working fine. Port 465 and ...
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Postfix is not responding on port 465 (SMTPS) [closed]

I have Postfix and I've configured it to listen on port 465 for SMTPS. When I telnet to port 465, it does not respond but it does respond on port 25. I've googled for days and nothing has worked for ...
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Minimum postfix config to send mails to a smtps server

I'm trying to send mails with python so I configured a postfix server locally. The python part seems to work as my mails reach the smtpd server. After that, postfix seems to correctly query the MX ...
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Self-signed certificate error with exim: CA is unknown

I added ssl support to my exim smtp server. Now I'm trying it with a Thunderbird client, first of all I imported my self signed certificate to thunderbird keystore and than I tried to connect. It ...
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Is enforcing encryption for SMTP a good idea (yet)?

I am running an email server which is currently set up to use TLS if possible, when sending and receiving emails. When you read in the documentation about this, there is also the option to enforce ...
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