qmail conversion smtps?

[Jonathan T. Steadman]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:42, Matt Morgan wrote:
> Jonathan T. Steadman wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 12:25, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Am Mi, den 04.08.2004 schrieb Jonathan T. Steadman um 17:40:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I have converted to sendmail after all the irritation I got from
> >>>installing sendmail, and it is just about up already, a lot more simple
> >>>then sendmail with all the correct packages, anyways I have not yet
> >>>figured out how to set up smtps which is a priority for me so I can send
> >>>mail remotely w/o fear of passwords being stolen and others using my
> >>>mail server.  anyways any help on that would be great also pop3s but
> >>>that is not such a big deal being I am now using imaps, in fact I might
> >>>just not even use pop anymore.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Do I understand you right that you converted from qmail to Sendmail,
> >>right?
> >>
> >>Well, SMTPS is first offered by Sendmail release 8.13.0, before it was
> >>only a FFR (for future release). As it is not compiled as FFR with the
> >>Fedora Sendmail you can't use SMTPS with it.
> >>
> >>But you can use STARTTLS which has the same intention and works good.
> >>You need to create a certificate and adjust the sendmail.mc file. This
> >>was already discussed here in length and I posted some links to
> >>documentation. So what is your specific problem?
> >>
> >>Alexander
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >no, sorry I converted from sendmail to qmail my mistake bad wording,
> >anyways that was the solution I used with sendmail, now I am using qmail
> >and I dont know where to go, if you could point me to a man-page or
> >somewhere explaining it that would be cool, I just dont know where to go
> >from here, looked a round a bit with no luck.  I just basically want to
> >require passwords to be sent via smtps, so that it would be secure.
> >
> >  
> >
> As qmail is not a standard Fedora package, you might be better off on 
> another list, e.g., look at http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html (there's also a 
> link there about converting from sendmail).
> 
> If you're not fully converted to qmail, and you haven't already done so, 
> consider postfix as well. In my experience (which is getting out of 
> date) it's easy to set up postfix and to convert to it from sendmail. 
> And the people who use it are nicer than the people who use qmail, on 
> average. But I don't know about SMTPS.
> 
heh I will take a look into that, thanks for the advice on postfix, and
I assure you I am one of the nicer qmail peoples ;) lol.