On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 case@??? wrote:
> I recently joined this list and after looking through the
> archives I havent seen anyone mentioning the possiblity of
> using the sendmail-tls code with exim so Id like to
> a) ask if anyone has patched exim so it will get along
> with sendmail-tls ( a wrapper around sendmail to take
> care of the TLS protocol, which, given the command line
> compatibility of exim with sendmail should work )
>
> b) get comments/suggestions for a 'hack' of the quick&dirty
> variety which appears to let me use sendmail-tls with
> exim, which basically consists of commenting out
>
> smtp_printf("451 SMTP service not available\r\n");
> return FALSE;
>
> in smtp_start_session(void) in smtp_in.c
> This is where exim thinks its talking to a socket because
> getpeername() *appeared* to work, but in actuality returned
> bogus information.. which exim will go on to try to use in
> getsockopt() .. which fails.
>
> * sendmail-tls is at http://opensource.3gi.com/sendmail-tls/
>
> Any comments/suggestions ?
sendmail-tls looks like another stunnel. stunnel can fake starttls
negotiation somehow. I've never used it though. See archives.
There is also a STARTTLS patch for Exim, that adds native TLS support to
Exim. This is definitely the way to go. See archives.
> Thanks
> Case
>
>
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