Re: Can't seem to disable STARTTLS in Fedora sendmail

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Adam Lanier wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:32:19 -0800 (PST), Wayne Johnson <wdtj yahoo com> 
> wrote:
>
> > We have a new Fedora system that is suppose to send it's mail (using
> > sendmail, no flames PLEASE!), to smtp.comcast.net.  When we attempt to
> > send it from a local account, we get an error back that the user is
> > invalid.  Strange, but it works find for mail being relayed from/for
> > other windows machines.
>
> [snip]
>
> > il.mc, etc.), but sendmail continues to attempt TLS.
> >
> > How do I turn TLS off!
>
>
> This is probably a question better suited to a sendmail mailing 
> list/newsgroup but...
>
> The sendmail book lists the following mc file directives that relate to 
> starttls:
>
> define(`CERT_DIR', `/etc/mail/certs')
> define(`confCACERT_PATH', `CERT_DIR')
> define(`confCACERT', `CERT_DIR`'/cacert.pem')
> define(`confSERVER_CERT', `CERT_DIR`'/client.cert.pem')
> define(`confSERVER_KEY', `CERT_DIR`'/client.key.pem')
> define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `CERT_DIR`'/client.cert.pem')
> define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `CERT_DIR`'/client.key.pem')
>
> If any of these are in your sendmail.mc, remove them (or rem them out), 
> rebuild the sendmail.cf file (with the command: m4 sendmail.mc > 
> sendmail.cf) and restart sendmail.

Another way is to edit the current sendmail.cf file and make sure
this line is in it and uncommented:

	O TLSSrvOptions=V

This tells sendmail to NOT request the client's certificate.  Note that
this option is not safe and is only present in sendmail V8.12.x.
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