Re: pre-connect and smtp ?

[christophe barbé <christophe barbe lineo fr>]

Le mar, 21 aoû 2001 09:17:26, Brian Stafford a écrit :
> On Mon, 20 August 21:33 christophe barbe wrote:
> > I've add your patch but the smrp session seems to be the same and my
> > request is rejected.
> 
> OK. It is likely that your MTA does not permit unauthorised relay.
> I'm surmising that you must either present a valid client certificate
> or be connecting from the localhost.  I don't see the MTA offering the
> AUTH extension in the protocol trace you sent, so presumably it isn't
> offered after securing the connection with STARTTLS either.
> 
> At present libESMTP does not implement certificate handling for STARTTLS.
> Looks like I'm going to have to write that code :)  The main reason I
> haven't
> done so yet is that certificate verification strategies are a little
> different
> for SMTP compared to session mode protocols.  I need to take advice on
> that
> issue.

And I would be an happy tester.
Thank you for your dedication.

> For now you will have to use port forwarding.  Presumably the MTA is
> fooled
> into believing that you are on the localhost and permits relay.  Port
> forwarding,
> it seems, can bypass a system administrator's access control strategies
> as
> well as all its other problems.

Yes I fall back to port forwarding.
But now I'm convinced that's only a temporally solution.

Christophe

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