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Re: exim-tls setup



On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:37:26AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:46:56AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > [Sorry to come in so late...]
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:22:40PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > > so now onto this exim-tls thing...
> > > 
> > > "SSL negotiation failed" (quelle suprise)
> > > 
> > > how many thousand pages (and which order do your recommend) do i
> > > have to read before i can get THAT working? i've got one remote
> > > user who needs to relay email; it feels like i'm building a
> > > resort complex to accomodate a bluebird.
> > 
> > Ohhh, I know this one.  It's pretty simple in the end :)  Read the docs
> > that came with exim for the TLS section, it worked for me :)  Basically,
> > generate a public/private keypair on both machines, then they need to
> > trade keys.  Tell Exim to allow anyone who's authenticated to relay
> > (with 'host_auth_accept_relay = *') and you should be done.   You might
> > need to fiddle with some other options, depdning on your existing
> > authentication system, but that was enough for me...
> 
> how do you get microso~1 outlook to generate a key? i've got a
> windo~1 laptop user who'd like to roam, and be able to send
> (relay) outgoing mail...

Ooooh, I've no idea.  Does Outlook even support TLS?


> i installed exim-tls, which seemed painless -- but then there's
> those certificate enrcyption thingies to frob... :)

Yeah, even generating certs isn't too hard, but getting Outlook to grok
them is going to suck, I imagine...

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Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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