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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