Thanks for the test posts!

I realized that I could check the TLS connection using `swaks`.

swaks --tls -q HELO -s localhost

It then will attempt a TLS connection

``` root@medium:/home/brian# swaks --tls -q HELO -s localhost === Trying localhost:25... === Connected to localhost. <- 220 medium.bigbrie.com ESMTP Exim 4.96 Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:24:04 -0700 -> EHLO medium.bigbrie.com <- 250-medium.bigbrie.com Hello localhost [::1] <- 250-SIZE 52428800 <- 250-8BITMIME <- 250-PIPELINING <- 250-PIPECONNECT <- 250-CHUNKING <- 250-STARTTLS <- 250-PRDR <- 250 HELP -> STARTTLS <- 220 TLS go ahead === TLS started with cipher TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 === TLS no local certificate set === TLS peer DN="/CN=bigbrie.com" ~> EHLO medium.bigbrie.com <~ 250-medium.bigbrie.com Hello localhost [::1] <~ 250-SIZE 52428800 <~ 250-8BITMIME <~ 250-PIPELINING <~ 250-PIPECONNECT <~ 250-CHUNKING <~ 250-PRDR <~ 250 HELP ~> QUIT <~ 221 medium.bigbrie.com closing connection === Connection closed with remote host. ```

On Sun, Aug 02, 2026 at 07:05:03AM -0700, Bob R wrote:

Posting from a gmail account... Good job, Brian.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2026 at 3:44 AM Linus Sphinx <[1]sphinxtar@gmail.com> wrote:

Posting from gmail. I still haven't got much use for vm's outside of Android emu for app writing/debugging but proxmox sounds like a great thing in spirit.

On Sat, Aug 1, 2026 at 11:51 PM Brian E. Lavender <[2]brian@brie.com> wrote:

 Can someone attempt to post from a gmail account? I updated some tls
 settings
 for the letsencrypt certs that mailman is using.
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Got it, got it :)

On Aug 3, 2026, at 8:39 AM, Kevin Brisson kbrisso@gmail.com wrote:

test test

On Sat, Aug 1, 2026 at 10:51 PM Brian E. Lavender <brian@brie.com mailto:brian@brie.com> wrote:

...

Can someone attempt to post from a gmail account? I updated some tls settings for the letsencrypt certs that mailman is using.

Brian

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