nullmailer fails to connect to SMTP server using TLS
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:46 pm
Hi,
I noticed my syslog was filling up with outgoing emails going to a pre-configured black hole that is, by all appearances, not discussed in the wiki. After some research, I configured the remotes file, the adminaddr file and soon begain seeing connection attempts to my smtp server at gmail. The connection failed because google expects a TLS login. Tried several other services with same result.
Ended up going to the developer's web site, found that the Debian distribution is about 5 revs below what the developer offers for a download. The last two versions of his product support TLS/SSL connections however, his package is an RPM package. I followed the compilation instructions and installed the dependencies, compile installed and no joy!
There are a few assumptions made on the UBUNTU distribution that do not match the latest version of the product such as the service assuming a user id of mail:root while the new product assumes nullmail:nullmail. The installation directories assumed in the Debian distribution have also been revised to new defaults in the new versions of the product. This could be corrected with a few tweaks of the make file. The service as it is today would need a few tweaks to make it work.
Before getting into this experience, I though of coming here to ask if someone could guide me as to how I can get a Debian package done for nullmailer as it seems to be the default mta for Amahi/Ubuntu. Perhaps there is another solution for this that I would need to know about.
Can anyone offer some guidance on this?
Current Debian distro: 1.05-1
Current version: 1.11, TLS/SSL support was implemented in v1.10 / April 2012
Web site: http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/ANNOUNCEMENT
I noticed my syslog was filling up with outgoing emails going to a pre-configured black hole that is, by all appearances, not discussed in the wiki. After some research, I configured the remotes file, the adminaddr file and soon begain seeing connection attempts to my smtp server at gmail. The connection failed because google expects a TLS login. Tried several other services with same result.
Ended up going to the developer's web site, found that the Debian distribution is about 5 revs below what the developer offers for a download. The last two versions of his product support TLS/SSL connections however, his package is an RPM package. I followed the compilation instructions and installed the dependencies, compile installed and no joy!
There are a few assumptions made on the UBUNTU distribution that do not match the latest version of the product such as the service assuming a user id of mail:root while the new product assumes nullmail:nullmail. The installation directories assumed in the Debian distribution have also been revised to new defaults in the new versions of the product. This could be corrected with a few tweaks of the make file. The service as it is today would need a few tweaks to make it work.
Before getting into this experience, I though of coming here to ask if someone could guide me as to how I can get a Debian package done for nullmailer as it seems to be the default mta for Amahi/Ubuntu. Perhaps there is another solution for this that I would need to know about.
Can anyone offer some guidance on this?
Current Debian distro: 1.05-1
Current version: 1.11, TLS/SSL support was implemented in v1.10 / April 2012
Web site: http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/ANNOUNCEMENT