Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:32:13 -0400 From: William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> To: Jim Ohlstein <jim@ohlste.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I get STARTTLS working with sendmail on FreeBSD 10.3 ? Message-ID: <CAFsnNZJrVzdk63kP-_QNQ9cocU1wT-V3uTv616Jz073qaENPjg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d1469f5d-ff46-ff1a-345a-9d157e9570ef@ohlste.in> References: <CAFsnNZLNVqA3PwUavhi62Orqg7i-OEsKo9m2Hsj0dwi%2B3iELmg@mail.gmail.com> <d1469f5d-ff46-ff1a-345a-9d157e9570ef@ohlste.in>
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I have news for you. Unless this feature was just removed from sendmail/FreeBSD, it should work. It WAS WORKING until November 2016. Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Jim Ohlstein <jim@ohlste.in> wrote: > Hello, > > On 3/18/17 6:44 PM, William Dudley wrote: > >> A google search does not reveal a useful answer. >> >> I just want to use a self-signed certificate so I can get my email from my >> FreeBSD mail server to my cell phone. My FreeBSD server runs sendmail. >> I don't really want to switch to postfix, qmail, etc. etc. >> >> > I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you after all this time and effort, > but AFAIK Sendmail speaks neither POP3 nor IMAP so you cannot use it as an > MDA. You can use it to *send* email from your phone, but not to retrieve > it. You also can use it to forward mails to another email address from > which you can retrieve it, of that's what you want. > > If you want to retrieve emails using your phone's email client, you will > need an MDA. I use mail/dovecot2. > > I know that you do not want to install a different MTA, but after all this > effort I'd suggest trying Exim. TLS is supported out of the box (in the > default ports/packages configuration) and is extremely easy to configure > [1]. You can use Dovecot authorization [2] with Exim, killing two birds > with one stone. > > [1] http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch- > encrypted_smtp_connections_using_tlsssl.html - see Section 6 > > [2] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL > > -- > Jim Ohlstein > > > "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the > difference." - Mark Twain >
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