[BUGS] SSL Sendmail

[Andrew Reilly]

Hi Jeremy,

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:52:23 +1100
Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> More sendmail drama for me.. I'v set up a mail server to relay based  
> on authentication through sasl against the passwd data base, but now I  
> would like to provide SSL for the users, since they could be sending  
> from any where.. But looking at it briefly there was a lot of stuff  
> about certificates etc.. I just want to encrypt the data, I don't care  
> about certificates and all that, do I?

You'll need a key of some sort: that's what the encryption is
based on.  There are generally tools (eg some in openssl) that
will generate "self-signed" keys pretty trivially.

> Is there some easy way I can just get it to encrypt the data that will  
> work with your average mail client?

Note that self-signed keys will make your client's e-mail
whinge, unless you distribute the corresponding self-signed
public key to all of them.  (Which is what I do, since my only
client is me.)

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew


-- 
Andrew