On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:26:09AM -0700, Scott wrote:

> dig -t mx otherdomain.de to find the MX.
> 
> telnet MX 25
> Trying aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd...
> Connected to MX.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 otherdomain.de ESMTP
> STARTTLS  <-- issue this command
> 220 Ok  <-- if this is the response then you're ok.
> 
> If it says "454 TLS missing certificate" instead of the 220 response then 
> it's a problem with their server.  Lately I've been getting a lot of these, 
> I check the whois, call the SA and they take care of it.  Lots of people 
> are running servers advertising TLS without a certificate.

I used to get a lot of these too. However, I don't see any usefulness
in doing TLS with arbitrary servers out there. Therefore, I choose to
turn OFF TLS for all my outgoing SMTP connections.

-- 
Anand Buddhdev
Celtel International



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