From: ldo@nz.invalid

On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 01:03:30 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> But while there is some learning curve required ... I need to look
> closely at how Postfix and SSL mesh with each other ... I got it up
> in less than an hour, and some of the configuration tables like
> relay-hosts even carried over.

That is very gratifying to know. ;)

> But it turned out that the worst of the problems was a firewall
> configuration that had gotten broken on the Windows/Thunderbird side
> where I was sending from. The TCP connection to port 25 or 587 never
> got out of the PC, which was obvious when I loaded up Wireshark on
> the PC side.
>
> I have a lot of experience over many decades, but sometimes I
> overlook really stupid things, because "I did not touch that part at
> all, at least not recently".

Presumably this was something in a Registry setting? So no text-based
config file(s) that you could have done a diff on, to see what had
changed?

My point is, the stupidity is not in you, it’s in Windows.

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