Why am I unable to connect to Postfix on port 587 on an AMI?
This is an AMI, the AMI firewall has 587 open, iptables is empty because I am using the Amazon firewall.
From the server itself the following works fine:
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect ami.example.com:587
postconf -n
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
debug_peer_level = 9
debug_peer_list = ami.example.com mail.example.com
home_mailbox = Maildir/
html_directory = no
inet_interfaces = localhost
inet_protocols = all
mailbox_command =
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
myorigin = $mydomain
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/README_FILES
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.6.6/samples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
setgid_group = postdrop
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtpd_tls_CAfile = /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/mail.example.com.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/mail.example.com.key
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 1
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s
smtpd_use_tls = yes
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
master.cf
submission inet n - n - - smtpd
-o syslog_name=postfix/submission
-o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt
-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
-o smtpd_sasl_path=private/auth
-o smtpd_sasl_security_options=noanonymous
-o smtpd_sasl_local_domain=$myhostname
-o smtpd_relay_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
-o smtpd_sender_restrictions=reject_sender_login_mismatch
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=reject_non_fqdn_recipient,reject_unknown_recipient_domain,permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
nmap results
Nmap scan report for ami.example.com
Host is up (0.024s latency).
Not shown: 995 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
143/tcp open imap
587/tcp closed submission
993/tcp open imaps
netstat results
netstat --proto=inet -pnl | grep 587
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:587 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 29829/master
Results when using from a remote machine:
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect ami.example.com:587
socket: Connection refused
connect:errno=111
Authentication is by pam.
Checked: Postfix Refused on 587
Best Answer
You have inet_interfaces set to localhost. You can see the effect of this in your netstat output, where the process is only listing on 127.0.0.1.