On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 03:24:42PM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> On Saturday 29 December 2007 13:51:06 Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > Andrew Falanga wrote:
> > > dnl set SASL options
> > > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl
> > > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN')dnl
> > >
> > > But when I ask my e-mail client to "check what the server supports", the
> > > returned list is only, GSSAPI, DIGEST-MD5 and CRAM-MD5.  Why is LOGIN not
> > > listed when it's included in this macro file?  Is there anything missing
> > > from this section of the handbook that I've missed?
> >
> > LOGIN will only be enabled over an encrypted connection.  All you need
> > to do to enable the stock sendmail to support STARTTLS is tell it to
> > use one or more SSL certs.  Adding something like this to
> > /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc is how to do that:
> 
> this seems to imply you want me to create a file named <hostname>.mc.  The 
> instructions I followed in the handbook also mentioned that, "Many 
> administrators choose to use the output from hostname(1) as the .mc file for 
> uniqueness."  Do I have to make this new file, paste into it all the stuff 
> in "freebsd.mc" and then add these lines too?
> 

Just run `make` in /etc/mail, it will create `hostname`.mc for you, edit
it, and run `make all install restart` (targets are described in
/etc/mail/Makefile).

> >
> > dnl
> > dnl TLS stuff
> > dnl
> > define(`CERT_DIR', `MAIL_SETTINGS_DIR`'certs')dnl
> > define(`confCACERT_PATH', `CERT_DIR')dnl
> > define(`confCACERT', `CERT_DIR/cacert.pem')dnl
> > define(`confSERVER_CERT', `CERT_DIR/cert.pem')dnl
> > define(`confSERVER_KEY', `CERT_DIR/key.pem')dnl
> > define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `CERT_DIR/cert.pem')dnl
> > define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `CERT_DIR/key.pem')dnl
> >
> > Which means you'ld put the PEM encoded cacert, key and cert into
> > /etc/mail/cacert.pem, /etc/mail/key.pem and /etc/mail/key.cert
> > respectively.  To generate all of those, there are some pithy
> > instructions here:
> >
> > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/other/cagreg.html
> 
> Thanks for all this.
> 
> Andy
> 
> >
> > When submitting a new message, most mail clients will automatically
> > do STARTTLS if it's available.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     Matthew

HTH,
Yuri
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