On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:42, Matt Morgan wrote: > Jonathan T. Steadman wrote: > > >On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 12:25, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > > > >>Am Mi, den 04.08.2004 schrieb Jonathan T. Steadman um 17:40: > >> > >> > >> > >>>I have converted to sendmail after all the irritation I got from > >>>installing sendmail, and it is just about up already, a lot more simple > >>>then sendmail with all the correct packages, anyways I have not yet > >>>figured out how to set up smtps which is a priority for me so I can send > >>>mail remotely w/o fear of passwords being stolen and others using my > >>>mail server. anyways any help on that would be great also pop3s but > >>>that is not such a big deal being I am now using imaps, in fact I might > >>>just not even use pop anymore. > >>> > >>> > >>Do I understand you right that you converted from qmail to Sendmail, > >>right? > >> > >>Well, SMTPS is first offered by Sendmail release 8.13.0, before it was > >>only a FFR (for future release). As it is not compiled as FFR with the > >>Fedora Sendmail you can't use SMTPS with it. > >> > >>But you can use STARTTLS which has the same intention and works good. > >>You need to create a certificate and adjust the sendmail.mc file. This > >>was already discussed here in length and I posted some links to > >>documentation. So what is your specific problem? > >> > >>Alexander > >> > >> > >> > >no, sorry I converted from sendmail to qmail my mistake bad wording, > >anyways that was the solution I used with sendmail, now I am using qmail > >and I dont know where to go, if you could point me to a man-page or > >somewhere explaining it that would be cool, I just dont know where to go > >from here, looked a round a bit with no luck. I just basically want to > >require passwords to be sent via smtps, so that it would be secure. > > > > > > > As qmail is not a standard Fedora package, you might be better off on > another list, e.g., look at http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html (there's also a > link there about converting from sendmail). > > If you're not fully converted to qmail, and you haven't already done so, > consider postfix as well. In my experience (which is getting out of > date) it's easy to set up postfix and to convert to it from sendmail. > And the people who use it are nicer than the people who use qmail, on > average. But I don't know about SMTPS. > heh I will take a look into that, thanks for the advice on postfix, and I assure you I am one of the nicer qmail peoples ;) lol.
