Re: [Exim] possibly OT: SMTP AUTH/SSL question

Alan Thew wrote:
> We run a group of SMTP machines with round robin `load balancing' which
> people point their clients at.
>
> One of the things I would like when launching SMTP AUTH+SSL is that people
> have very little or nothing to change, their client and remote server do
> it all.. _but_ since SSL certs are normally tied to a specific machine,

They are tied to a specific hostname, not the specific machine.

> how do I have a simple single name in the DNS for them to point their
> client to?

What does your round robin load balacing do?

Say you have mail.example.com where clients connect to - then you need a
cert issued for mail.example.com put on each of the servers involved in
your load balanced setup.

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Kirill Miazine, Stud. Jur.
Faculty of Law, University of Oslo