Exercise 9.4 - Enable relaying using SMTP Auth in postfix.
I am not sure, but I believe there might be a confusion in this exercise.
In the beginning of the exercise we ensure that mynetworks_style is set to host
postconf -e "mynetworks_style = host"
Later it is sais that any system on our subnet is permitted to relay due to permit_mynetworks.
6. Test plain text authentication from a remote host. Notice that any system on our subnet will be allowed to relay due to permit mynetworks. If you wish to test on a single machine eliminate the permit mynetworks entry from smtpd recipient restrictions to force all relaying to authenticate.
This is confusing for me because I thought that we defined mynetworks to be host instead of subnet.
Is there something I am missing or maybe it is an error in the exercise? Would someone please be so kind and give us some certitude?
Another point is the access via telnet. I get the message
Connection closed by foreign host.
In the log file under /var/log/maillog I can see the following information:
Sep 17 12:31:21 localhost postfix/smtpd[3873]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: No such file or directory Sep 17 12:31:21 localhost postfix/smtpd[3873]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
I try to connect via telnet from my host machine (e.g. 192.168.0.17) to my virtual machine (e.g. 192.168.0.30), on which I had set up postfix and dovecot. I am not sure why I cannot connect. When I check the status of the processes then it looks ok to me; both, postfix and dovecot, are in status active(running).
Could someone please help out with this?
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Thank you for your input
The first challange, the section 9.4.6. The "smtpd_recipient_restrictions" section will allow any system access depending on the content of "permit_mynetworks" and we have it set to "host" so any other host except us will have to be authenticated. This would require a second system to test the authentication. By removing "permit_mynetworks" from "smtpd_recipiient_restrictions" ALL connections trying to relay will require authentication.
Does that help?
In the second bit, the telnet connection to port 25, lets first check that step 6 works to "localhost", if that works, try to connect to your ip address 192.168.0.30 from the vm system (same machine just a different IP). Please check the status of the firewall (firewalld or iptables).
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Thank you. Now I understand it better.
Regarding Telnet, it was my firewall. I'm getting used to it now. I wish in the logs I would have better hints in that regard though.
Thanks for your help.
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