See previous comment from me. He's getting connection refused from a telnet localhost 587 , ergo, there is NOTHING listening on 587.

He needs to configure openSMTPD to listen on 587.

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On 7/11/18, 5:00 PM, "dovecot on behalf of Richard" wrote:

obvious correction ... sorry.

  netstat -np | grep :587


> Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 21:57:31 +0000
> From: Richard <inbound-dovecot@listmail.innovate.net>

> what does the output of:
> 
>     netstat -n | grep :587
> 
> run as root, show you? the -p will give the program and pid.
> 
> 
> 
>> Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 21:51:09 +0000
>> From: Larry Rosenman <larryrtx@gmail.com>
>> 
>> Yep, you (probably) need to configure openSMTPD to listen on 587
>> 
>> (I run exim, so I can't help with that).
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