Re: [Exim] Re: Bug#220773: exim4 won't send client-side cert…

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Author: Oliver Eikemeier
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To: Mark Foster
CC: exim-users, Noah Meyerhans, 220773-forwarded
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Bug#220773: exim4 won't send client-side certificates
Mark Foster wrote:

>>On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:50:14AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>>
>>>Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
>>>Version 4.24-3
>>>
>>>Exim doesn't send a certificate when operating on the client-end of a
>>>secure SMTP conversation, even when properly configured. I suspect
>>>that this is either a bug with GNUTLS or with the Exim upstream sources.
>>>Exim behaves correctly when built against the OpenSSL libraries.

[...]
> I can confirm that exim-4.22 on FreeBSD DOES send the client certificate
> to a postfix MTA... as long as postfix requests it[1]. The question is, does
> exim, acting as a TLS client automatically send the certificate it has, or
> does it only do so when asked for it?


FreeBSD exim build againt OpenSSL. We are not so GNUish.
There is no way for the client to send the certificate
automatically, the server has to ask.