Re: [Cialug] sendmail/SSL

[david l goodrich <dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 09:57  pm, Richard Harms wrote:
> If you're using stunnel, most remote mail servers are not going to 
> notice that automatically - SSL enabled sendmail on its own port was a 
> very short lived thing and your normal sendmail isn't going to 
> advertise the starttls command. If you want it to "just work" mail 
> server to mail server, doing it in sendmail is about the only way.

i really don't much care about what the servers do  to communicate, 
because the message is going to go out in the clear at some time or 
another.  i am more worried about the passwords from authentication 
going cleartext.  the instructions you pulled from your redhat machine 
work, as long as you also copy $PEM2 to ca-bundle.crt.  thanks.
  --waldo

> -rh
>
> On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 09:04  PM, david l goodrich wrote:
>
> > how would you create the certificates if you didn't have "make 
> > sendmail.pem" to do the dirty work for you?  i gave up and ran 
> > stunnel.  my conf for stunnel looks like this, if anyone's curious...
> > $ cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
> > client = no
> > [25]
> > accept = 465
> > connect = 25
> > $
> > preeetty basic.  465 is the ssmtp port, if you were wondering.
> >   --waldo
>
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