Re: On the security of e-mails
On 26-May-2000 Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> Bradley,
>
> Uhm, isn't Sendmail's SMTP-over-SSL thing supposed to conform to some
> standard..? I seriously doubt the other endpoint has to be
> Sendmail; rather, I think it probably only needs to be running a proper
> SMTP-over-SSL implementation. If this is the case, then this can be done
> with stunnel and your favorite MTA. (mine being qmail... why doesn't
> everyone use qmail..?)
I think it is standard because I read the postfix TLS enhancement doc's and
here is snip from description:
Overview:
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- This is an SSL/TLS enhancement package for postfix.
It realizes (well, or at least should, once it is finished) the
STARTTLS extension to SMTP as described in RFC2487 and used
by Netscape 4.5x.
RFC2487 is "SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS"
So, all SMTP MTA's with SSL/TLS should cooperate, shouldn't they?
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