From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Mar 23 15:31:52 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5CFD199EA for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:31:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from bede.home.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org", Issuer "fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C59E01F52; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:31:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.home.qeng-ho.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v2NFVmJ2053661; Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:31:48 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Subject: Re: how do I get STARTTLS working with sendmail on FreeBSD 10.3 ? To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20170323233742.R95579@sola.nimnet.asn.au> From: Arthur Chance Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:31:48 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:31:52 -0000 On 23/03/2017 14:20, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 2017/03/23 13:16, Ian Smith wrote: >> I suggest acknowledging Jim is correct, and figure out what's wrong with >> your $whatever. Other contributors including Matthew - whose knowledge >> is far beyond mine or most people on this subject - perhaps, like me, >> hadn't twigged that your problem is pick up, NOT sending from sendmail. > > I very nearly asked about the relevance of sendmail to the problem at > hand, but I came to the conclusion that the OP meant sendmail when he > said sendmail, even if he did say 'read' rather than 'send' on one occasion. Ditto. Telnetting into port 25 to see what capabilities are shown in response to EHLO isn't usually the act of a novice. -- By June 1949, people had begun to realize that it was not so easy to get a program right as had at one time appeared. It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs. -- Maurice Wilkes