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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:49:18 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Johan Granlund <johan@granlund.nu>
To:        Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: sendmail updated from 8.9.3 to 8.11.0 in -current
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008131324140.78011-100000@phoenix.granlund.nu>
In-Reply-To: <14741.55147.202130.156007@horsey.gshapiro.net>

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On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:

> hetzels> Sendmail 8.11 has the ablity to due secure authentication with
> hetzels> mail clients when compiled with Cyrus-SASL.
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> hetzels> Will the Cyrus-SASL library be imported to provide this
> hetzels> capability?  Or at least a make.conf variable.
> 
> My first step in the process was to get sendmail up-to-date.  Once it is
> MFC'ed to STABLE, I'll look at enhancements.  After September 21, I want to
> turn on STARTTLS support.  I'm not sure about importing SASL -- I might be
> convinced to put in Makefile support if it happens to already been
> installed via ports.

I think we have to support rfc2554 autenthication (With MECH LOGIN for
Outlook) out of the box if we are serius about mailserver and security.
Sendmail 8.9 closed relaying and created a problem with mobile users. This
is the standard solution on that problem.

Support for autentication is more important than STARTTLS in my opinion
but the problem is we have to import another supportlibrary in the base
system.

A make.conf knob to use a userinstalled library may create problems with
different versions of Cysus-SASL. I had some problems with that when
uppgrading my mailservers to Sendmail 8.10.


/Johan

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