The past days I have been working on setting up Email on my server, I have manged to send emails (without them going to the spam folder) but the emails are still not being encrypted.
The server is Ubuntu 16.04 with Apache2 (LAMP stack) - and right now I am sending emails without SMTP (i think) I’m using PHPMailer to send emails.
Here’s the tutorials I have followed: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-postfix-as-a-send-only-smtp-server-on-ubuntu-16-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-dkim-with-postfix-on-debian-wheezy https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-an-spf-record-to-prevent-spoofing-improve-e-mail-reliability
For encryption I tried these tutorials, but they didn’t help. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-gpg-to-encrypt-and-sign-messages https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-setup-additional-entropy-for-cloud-servers-using-haveged
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.
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I seemed to find a solution for this at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-postfix-as-a-send-only-smtp-server-on-ubuntu-16-04#step-3-—-testing-the-smtp-server in the comment section by the user kevinruffus
He’s comment that solved my problem:
In addition to the instructions above, create your own self-signed certs, use LetsEncrypt, or use purchased certificates/keys (make sure you use wildcard or certificates specific to your hostname/FQDN), and edit main.cf to include:
smtpd_tls_CAfile=(if your cert and CAfile aren’t rolled into a single file) It cleared the warnings from the emails for me, and shows TLS was used.
Edit: Corrected to show smtp_use_tls=yes, not smtpd_use_tls=yes
Same thing here, had to change from
to
Don’t forget to
Thx @andersdk ! I was having problems with smtpd_use_tls=yes ! and it was smtp_use_tls=yes as you correctly highlighted. Best regards.