Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 21:36:51 -0400 From: Jim Ohlstein <jim@ohlste.in> To: William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I get STARTTLS working with sendmail on FreeBSD 10.3 ? Message-ID: <378051e6-d075-c00c-066d-e6240583ea59@ohlste.in> In-Reply-To: <CAFsnNZJrVzdk63kP-_QNQ9cocU1wT-V3uTv616Jz073qaENPjg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFsnNZLNVqA3PwUavhi62Orqg7i-OEsKo9m2Hsj0dwi%2B3iELmg@mail.gmail.com> <d1469f5d-ff46-ff1a-345a-9d157e9570ef@ohlste.in> <CAFsnNZJrVzdk63kP-_QNQ9cocU1wT-V3uTv616Jz073qaENPjg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, On 3/22/17 8:32 PM, William Dudley wrote: > I have news for you. Unless this feature was just removed from > sendmail/FreeBSD, it should > work. It WAS WORKING until November 2016. That would be news. I guess you have a super Sendmail that listens for and accepts POP3(s)/IMAP(s) connections. That would be interesting since Sendmail is an SMTP(s) server. I won't bother you again since you are clearly more knowledgeable than I. > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Jim Ohlstein <jim@ohlste.in > <mailto: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 > <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 > <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL>; > > -- > Jim Ohlstein > > > "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the > difference." - Mark Twain > > -- Jim Ohlstein "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Mark Twain
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