[BUGS] SSL Sendmail
Andrew Reilly
areilly at bigpond.net.au
Fri Jan 18 08:26:23 EST 2008
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,
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Andrew
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Andrew
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