[Mimedefang] Skipping SA on TLSMTA connections?

[John Rudd]

Philip Prindeville wrote:

> dnl # The following causes sendmail to additionally listen to port 465, but
> dnl # starting immediately in TLS mode upon connecting. Port 25 or 587 followed
> dnl # by STARTTLS is preferred, but roaming clients using Outlook Express can't
> dnl # do STARTTLS on ports other than 25. Mozilla Mail can ONLY use STARTTLS
> dnl # and doesn't support the deprecated smtps; Evolution <1.1.1 uses smtps
> dnl # when SSL is enabled-- STARTTLS support is available in version 1.1.1.
> dnl #
> dnl # For this to work your OpenSSL certificates must be configured.
> dnl #
> dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl
> dnl #


That's kind of funny.  "starting immediately in TLS mode" is not "TLS". 
  It's SSL.  They should have named that "SSLMTA" not "TLSMTA".

But that's just me being picky.

I wouldn't dnl it.  I might change the Name, but you don't really have 
to disable it.