On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Dino Ciuffetti wrote:
> >> Is it possible to make courier automagically failing back to plain text
> >> for broken smtp hosts that advertise STARTTLS but are broken on STARTTLS
> >> command returning something like: "454 TLS not available: missing RSA
> >> private key (#4.3.0)"?
> >
> > AFAIK it isn't possible in general. But think about it: why should it? If
> > you announce being able do TLS and actually you aren't why
> > should you announce it in the first place?
> > It's up to the receiving server to get it right.
> > Either I do "speak" TLS and announce it, or I can't.
> > In the latter case I can't announce it.
>
> Yes, that'ok. I agree with you!!
>
> > There's a workaround, though, but it's ugly:
> > put something like
> >
> > receiving-domain.example: mx.for.receiving.domain.example /SECURITY=NONE
> >
> > in your esmtproutes. That fixes the problem for receiving-domain.example,
> > but
> > not in general. As I said, it's an ugly workaround.
>
> This temporarily solved the problem... I home mx/cname record for that
> domain does not change too quickly :-)
>
> Thank you so much!!! Dino.
>

Well, you need not to specify it at all.
I am using

domain.com: /SECURITY=NONE

and that's it. It means 'just lookup MX record the usual way and use the 
result, but do not try TLS at all'.

Regards,
Milan

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