[Mimedefang] Skipping SA on TLSMTA connections?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, John Rudd wrote:

> 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.

Last time I tried, sentmail did not recognize a SSL connection, I had to 
use stunnel to wrap the connection. Insofar, it makes no sense.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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