Email - Submission Port (587,25)
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About
submission port are the port of the mail server where an email client would connect to try to send an email.
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Port
There is basically two well-known ports.
25
The port 25 is a submission port for a basic connection (ie without TLS) without authentication.
The localhost port 25 is used by Postfix or similar mail server running on the local machine.
- For remote client, it denies relay and accepts only to receive email for the domain that it manages.
- For local client, it accepts to send email.
587
The port 587
- is considered a submission port for SSL (TLS). It is also what remote clients use to send mail out using your server.
- should only allow authenticated connections
Configuration
Postfix
To open the port 587, with postfix, the submission line should be uncommented and parameters should be overwritten.
# ==========================================================================
# service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args
# (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (100)
# ==========================================================================
submission inet n - n - - smtpd
-o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt
-o syslog_name=postfix/submission
-o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes
-o smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient=no
-o smtpd_client_restrictions=$mua_client_restrictions
-o smtpd_helo_restrictions=$mua_helo_restrictions
-o smtpd_sender_restrictions=$mua_sender_restrictions
-o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject
-o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING
Specification
If you want to known more about the subject, there is also a whole specification. See RFC6409 - Message Submission for Mail