On 2/4/2026 8:50 PM, Viktor Dukhovni via Postfix-users wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 10:18:00AM -0500, Dennis Putnam via Postfix-users wrote:

It may be time for more debugging info. You could always add a -v
parameter to the smtp service in master.cf that will give you more
verbose info (so long as this is a server where you can safely do this
kind of debugging)

smtp      unix  -       -       n       -       -       smtp -v

That will certainly show the smtp session including which user is being
used for authentication and the result.
That's the master.cf entry for the Postfix SMTP CLIENT (smtp(8)), not
the Postfix SMTP server (smtpd(8)).  See side-by-side definitions below:

     $ postconf -c ~/dev/postfix/postfix/conf -Mf 'smtp/*'
     smtp       inet  n       -       n       -       -       smtpd
     smtp       unix  -       -       n       -       -       smtp

After resolving a higher priority problem, I am back to this one. I've added
the -v option but I'm not sure exactly what to look for. I do see something
suspicious.
You've added the "-v" to the wrong service:

2026-02-03T14:48:59.408005-05:00 dap002 postfix/smtpd[142495]: >>> CHECKING
Recipient address VALIDATION MAPS <<<
Don't confuse the SMTP delivery agent (SMTP client) "smtp/unix" (daemon
program smtp(8)), with the port 25 SMTP listener (SMTP server)
"smtp/inet" (daemon program smtpd(8)).

This line:

smtp       unix  -       -       n       -       -       smtp


is commented out in my master.cf. I didn't realize they were 2 different things. I'll uncomment it and collect the data again.

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