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Hi All, Incomming mail with startssl on imap is working. Sending with plain text password is working I have check port: 587 this one is open. When i do a telnet session everything is working when. What can the problem when i want use my mail client and it cant make a secure connection. Using: Centos, Dovecot, Postfix

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moisey MOD April 9, 2013

What mail client are you using?

Also do you have a self-signed or free cert? Depending on the mail client it may be rejecting it for that reason, but that is just a guess.

Does the mail client return a specific error message that might have more info?

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Answer 2

poudenes April 9, 2013

I use self signed cert. Using thunderbird as client.
Error msg: try translate from dutch to english

Failed to send message.
An error occurred while sending e-mail: Failed to make a secure connection. With SMTP server mail.160bpm.com using STARTTLS Switching STARTTLS for that server or contact your service provider.

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