Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:25:11 -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: <8CDAF29F-034A-4BC5-8727-4EC0B39331F6@ohlste.in> In-Reply-To: <CAFsnNZJyqrQCWAwEHOWZbQr1oohVbvQWocihw9g6gRZUN=D-dg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFsnNZLNVqA3PwUavhi62Orqg7i-OEsKo9m2Hsj0dwi%2B3iELmg@mail.gmail.com> <d1469f5d-ff46-ff1a-345a-9d157e9570ef@ohlste.in> <CAFsnNZJrVzdk63kP-_QNQ9cocU1wT-V3uTv616Jz073qaENPjg@mail.gmail.com> <378051e6-d075-c00c-066d-e6240583ea59@ohlste.in> <CAFsnNZJyqrQCWAwEHOWZbQr1oohVbvQWocihw9g6gRZUN=D-dg@mail.gmail.com>
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Your entire question is ridiculous since Sendmail will never be useful for r= etrieving email from a remote server. Ever. To do that you need a POP/IMAP s= erver. That was my point. Still is.=20 I only suggested you consider another agent since this one is proving diffic= ult for you to configure. I never said you "had to" do anything, but you wil= l need more than Sendmail to use your phone's email client.=20 But keep going, you're doing great.=20 Jim Ohlstein > On Mar 22, 2017, at 10:41 PM, William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > There's another layer in there, popd or imapd or whatever, but the point i= s, I've been > using sendmail on FreeBSD for at least a decade. I had STARTTLS working w= ith sendmail > just last year. So your assertion that I have to run some other MTA could= not be true. >=20 > But thanks for your time. I welcome all suggestions, even ones that don't= pan out. >=20 > Bill Dudley >=20 >=20 > This email is free of malware because I run Linux. >=20 >> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Jim Ohlstein <jim@ohlste.in> wrote: >> Hello, >>=20 >>> 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. >>=20 >> That would be news. I guess you have a super Sendmail that listens for an= d accepts POP3(s)/IMAP(s) connections. That would be interesting since Sendm= ail is an SMTP(s) server. I won't bother you again since you are clearly mor= e knowledgeable than I. >>=20 >>=20 >>>=20 >>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Jim Ohlstein <jim@ohlste.in >>> <mailto:jim@ohlste.in>> wrote: >>>=20 >>> Hello, >>>=20 >>> On 3/18/17 6:44 PM, William Dudley wrote: >>>=20 >>> A google search does not reveal a useful answer. >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>> If you want to retrieve emails using your phone's email client, you >>> will need an MDA. I use mail/dovecot2. >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>> [1] >>> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-encrypte= d_smtp_connections_using_tlsssl.html >>> <http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-encrypt= ed_smtp_connections_using_tlsssl.html> >>> - see Section 6 >>>=20 >>> [2] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL >>> <http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL>; >>>=20 >>> -- >>> Jim Ohlstein >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the >>> difference." - Mark Twain >>>=20 >>>=20 >>=20 >> --=20 >> Jim Ohlstein >>=20 >>=20 >> "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the differenc= e." - Mark Twain >=20
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