On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Mike Farbecker wrote:

>
> Hi there,
>
> I am using XMailserver for about two weeks now without any problems, I'm
> really happy with it. It's a simple, reliable and robust MTA.
>
> The only feature I'm missing is STARTTLS encryption support. I was able to
> add ssl encryption for connections between XMail and the E-Mail Client
> Software using the STUNNEL proxy (available for Linux and Win32 on
> www.stunnel.org).
>
> But only with native support from the MTA it would be possible to also
> encrypt Server-to-Server traffic (whenever the MTA on the other side
> supports it). TLS-capable Servers display "STARTTLS" after the EHLO command
> and typically use a library such as openssl to establish the SSL connection
> which is used for the actual SMTP transaction.
>
> Do you have any plans to implement TLS support in future releases? Does
> anyone know of a free Mailserver with TLS support for Win32? I think XMail
> would be the only one.

No I won't add STARTTLS to XMail because 0.1% of MTA's on earth support
it. If you really need encryption, you can achieve SMTPS or POPS with
stunnel.




- Davide

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