Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:08:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> To: Dirk Meyer <dinoex@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/sendmail Makefileports/mail/sendmail/files site.config.m4.smtps Message-ID: <20030417100159.E12405@randomservers> In-Reply-To: <200304161439.h3GEdNWP063003@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200304161439.h3GEdNWP063003@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Dirk Meyer wrote: > dinoex 2003/04/16 07:39:23 PDT > > FreeBSD ports repository > > Modified files: > mail/sendmail Makefile > Added files: > mail/sendmail/files site.config.m4.smtps > Log: > - Added new option SENDMAIL_WITH_SMTPS=yes > The current sendmail port (mail/sendmail) does not allow to build > build sendmail with smtps support (SSL but not STARTTLS). > This mode is required by some MUA (ex. the only way to enable > encryption in MS Outlook Express is to use smtps). > PR: 51029 > Submitted by: and@rsu.ru <slightly offtopic> Having just spent the last couple of days fighting with Outlook XP (2002) and sendmail starttls people should know the above is not exactly correct. Outlook XP will only use starttls if the smtp port is set to 25. If it is set to any other port number and the 'This server requires a secure connection (SSL)' is checked then it will always try smtps instead of starttls. I found this out the hard way :-( I was able to kind of get confirmation of this from the following post : http://groups.google.com/groups?q=outlook+starttls+ssl+port&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=OhAJjSAyCHA.2916%40TK2MSFTNGP09&rnum=1 It appears outlook didn't always do this, but it does now. Hopefully this little tid bit can prevent someone else from banging their head on the wall. </slightly offtopic> Thanks for adding this, I had to do this locally just the other day to make Outlook happy. -Joseph
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