sendmail STARTTLS problem?

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Wed May 4 18:00:42 UTC 2005


Am Mi, den 04.05.2005 schrieb Knute Johnson um 19:50:

> I'm having some difficulty configuring my sendmail to use STARTTLS 
> with my Winblows Pegasus Mail client.  I uninstalled and reinstalled 
> sendmail with yum so I would have a clean installation.  I modified 
> the sendmail.mc file, uncommenting the define(`confCACERT_PATH,
> define(`confCACERT, define(`confSERVER_CERT and 
> define(`confSERVER_KEY lines.  The sendmail.pem file exists in 
> /usr/share/ssl/certs, I did not modify it.  I enabled STARTTLS 
> connections on port 465.  The rest of the file is unmodified.  The 
> maillog shows no errors when restarting sendmail.  When I connect 
> with my mail client however, no data is transferred and the socket 
> eventually times out.  The following two lines then appear in 
> maillog.

> Knute Johnson

Attention: port 465 is not STARTTLS! It is SMTP over SSL (TLS).
I don't know what current Pegasus mail uses, but I would think using
port 25 and STARTTLS will succeed.

Alexander


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