Re: [Evolution] smtp/ssl

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni billy demon nl>]

man, 2003-01-27 kl. 18:18 skrev Jeffrey Stedfast:

> > > > this could be usefull 
> > > > for mail, like for SMTP-servers. Sendmail actually get two certificates: 
> > > > one for 'client' sessions and one for 'server' sessions. (These can be 
> > > > identical but this doesn't have to be the case).
> > > mail protocols do not use client-ssl-certs, just like they are not used
> > > for HTTP.
> >
> > Well, they are used in other mail-clients; and mail-servers (like 
> > sendmail) can be set up to relay messages only when you use a 
> > certificate that has been issued by certain users.

Just for the interest, Exim 4.12 smtp server with self-signed private
and server (read public) keys works perfectly well with Evo 1.2.1 and
always has done since Evo 1.0.5. When I first tried it.

The only thing is, at the very first connect the user gets asked about
accepting a suspect certificate, to which he acquiesces, and after that,
Bob's your uncle.

OTOH Evo with WU Imapd 2002a and ldap - no way do they work with
SSL/TLS, whilst Imp and Mozilla 1.1 work perfectly well.

Best,

Tony

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