From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 11 21:21:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F6337B405 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:21:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5C4KpU99016; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:20:52 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:20:50 +1200 (NZST) From: Dan Langille X-Sender: dan@lists.unixathome.org To: Brad Knowles Cc: Alex Zepeda , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MTA authentications In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Brad Knowles wrote: > However, it would not surprise me to find that CommuniGate > screwed up STARTTLS, or that they don't have a valid certificate. > For that matter, you might not have a valid certificate. I don't ever remember setting up a certificate. Where should I be looking? > In your case, I'd try modifying your sendmail configuration so as > to not try to use STARTTLS even when it's advertised by the remote > end, and see if that fixes the problem (alternatively, this may > require rebuilding and reinstalling sendmail). Hmmm, I think that's the option for me. Anyone know what I should be looking for? > If this works, then you could either leave your system this way, > or get a certificate set up properly, and then go back to the > previous sendmail configuration, and see if that works. If it does, > then you're now more secure, and this should be an improvement. Please explain to me how having a certificate will make me more secure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message