Re: Disable STARTTLS in sendmail

[Richard A Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Markus Bajohr wrote:

> I've installed Debian Woody 3.0 with the sendmail package.
> It's all working, but I get a lot of messages, like:
>
> Aug 12 13:22:35 fileserver sm-mta[2420]: STARTTLS=server: file
> /etc/mail/ssl/sendmail-server.crt unsafe: No such file or directory
> Aug 12 13:30:01 fileserver sm-msp-queue[2496]: STARTTLS=client: file
> /etc/mail/ssl/sendmail-client.crt unsafe: No such file or directory
> Aug 12 13:30:01 fileserver sm-msp-queue[2496]: STARTTLS=client: file
> /etc/mail/ssl/sendmail-common.key unsafe: No such file or directory
> Aug 12 13:30:01 fileserver sm-msp-queue[2496]: STARTTLS=client: file
> /etc/mail/ssl/sendmail-server.crt unsafe: No such file or directory
> Aug 12 13:30:01 fileserver sm-msp-queue[2496]: STARTTLS=client, error:
> load verify locs /etc/ssl/certs/, /etc/mail/ssl/sendmail-server.crt
> failed: 0
>
> My question: How can I disable the STARTTLS?
> I don't need it on a fileserver. Is there a way to disable these error
> messages in the logfile(s)?

The next upload will make STARTTLS and AUTH completely optional,
until then, make sure you remove, the line
	include(`/etc/mail/[tls/]?starttls.m4')
from both sendmail.mc and submit.mc

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