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this is how i configured my postfix MTA to deliver through tpo

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user dgoulet
passwordeval pass mail/dgoulet@torproject.org
### Postfix client configuration
If you run Postfix as your local Mail Transport Agent (MTA), you'll
need to do something special to route your emails through the
submission server.
First, set the following configuration in `main.cf`, by running the
following commands:
postconf -e smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes
postconf -e smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
postconf -e smtp_sasl_security_options=
postconf -e relayhost=submission.torproject.org:587
postconf -e smtp_tls_security_level=encrypt
postfix reload
The `/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd` file holds `hostname user:pass`
configurations, one per line:
touch /etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
chown root:root /etc/postfix/sasl/passwd && chmod 600 /etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
echo "submission.torproject.org user:pass" >> /etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
Then rehash that map:
postmap /etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
Note that this method stores your plain text password on disk. Make
sure permissions on the file are limited and that you use full disk
encryption.
`may` can be used as a `security_level` if we are going to send mail
to other hosts which may not support security, but make sure that
mails are encrypted when talking to the `relayhost`, for example
through a `smtp_tls_policy_maps`.
If you want to use Tor's submission server *only* for mail sent from a
`@torproject.org` address, you'll need an [extra step](http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#client_sasl_sender). This should
be in `main.cf`:
postconf -e smtp_sender_dependent_authentication=yes
postconf -e sender_dependent_relayhost_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/sender_relay
Then in the `/etc/postfix/sender_relay` file:
# Per-sender provider; see also /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.
anarcat@torproject.org [submission.torproject.org]
Then rehash that map as well:
postmap /etc/postfix/sender_relay
Make sure you do *not* change the `relahost` (above), or reset it to
its previous value. If you have changed your [`default_transport`](http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#default_transport),
you'll also need a [`sender_dependent_default_transport_maps`](http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#sender_dependent_default_transport_maps) as
well:
postconf -e sender_dependent_transport_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/sender_transport
With `/etc/postfix/sender_transport` looking like:
anarcat@torproject.org smtp:
For debugging, you can make SMTP client sessions verbose in Postfix:
smtp unix - - - - - smtp -v
`smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter` is also very handy for debugging. For
example, you can try to force the authentication mechanism to
`cram-md5` this way.
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