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Patrice_77

Why is my freshly install PVE wanting to connect to cloud flare?

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Hi all,

Finished setting up my new PVE, and see in the logs that Postfix is trying to connect to cloud flare. Anybody knows why, or where this is configured??

The below messages, keep on going and I still haven't configured anything yet apart from log2ram, logrotate, unattended-upgrades.

Jun 08 12:37:18 elite postfix/smtp[9150]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[162.159.205.12]:25: Connection timed out
Jun 08 12:37:18 elite postfix/smtp[9151]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[162.159.205.12]:25: Connection timed out
Jun 08 12:37:18 elite postfix/smtp[9151]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[2606:4700:f5::d]:25: Network is unreachable
Jun 08 12:37:18 elite postfix/smtp[9150]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[2606:4700:f5::b]:25: Network is unreachable
Jun 08 12:37:18 elite postfix/smtp[9150]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[2606:4700:f5::d]:25: Network is unreachable
Jun 08 12:37:18 elite postfix/smtp[9153]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[162.159.205.12]:25: Connection timed out
Jun 08 12:37:18 elite postfix/smtp[9153]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[2606:4700:f5::b]:25: Network is unreachable
Jun 08 12:37:18 elite postfix/smtp[9152]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[162.159.205.12]:25: Connection timed out
Jun 08 12:37:48 elite postfix/smtp[9153]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[162.159.205.13]:25: Connection timed out
Jun 08 12:37:48 elite postfix/smtp[9150]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[162.159.205.13]:25: Connection timed out
Jun 08 12:37:48 elite postfix/smtp[9151]: connect to route1.mx.cloudflare.net[162.159.205.11]:25: Connection timed out

Posted Jun 8, 2026, 4:46 PM UTC

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