Re: [Dovecot] Client can't connect to SMTP

Jeremy Gillick wrote:

I've just installed Dovecot and Postfix and my email client (Mac Mail) cannot authenticate with the SMTP server. The error I receive says that "The SMTP server doesn't support SSL (TLS) on port 465" -- yet, I've installed SSL. Is there any good way to test or debug this?

465 is the obsolete "smtps". if you want it, you need to enable it in master.cf (look for "smtps").

The standard is to use the STARTTLS command over whatever smtp port.

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