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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: status of smtp authentication?
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:02:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilubrdm9gdj.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k6sam5kq.fsf@chocolate-chip-cookie.dme.org>

David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:

> * billw@mchsi.com [2004-11-25 05:01:26]
>> I've tried this with my information to no avail.  I can send mail to
>> addresses within my employer's domain (as before), but not outside
>> it.  Does it matter that our mail clients are required to use SSL to
>> authenticate?  Would I need some extra settings to handle that?
>
> This is the case where you need the "starttls" binary, I believe.  It
> manages the transition from clear-text protocol exchange to SSL
> encrypted exchange.
>
> The version of starttls.c I have came from:
>     % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root login
>     CVS password: [CR] # NULL string
>     % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root checkout starttls

Installing GnuTLS should also work.  I recommended it over starttls.




      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-25 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-25  1:30 Bill White
2004-11-25  2:14 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-25  3:00   ` Bill White
2004-11-25  5:01   ` Bill White
2004-11-25  5:30     ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-25 13:16     ` David Edmondson
2004-11-25 14:02       ` Simon Josefsson [this message]

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