----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SSL in SMTP


>
> >>     I have watched in
> >> <http://www.stunnel.org/examples/>http://www.stunnel.org/examples/
but
> >> there is no example with smtp.
> >>     That I must make to form the Server of Imail v8.04 so that
protocol
> >> smtp is with SSL?
> >
> >You would want to have stunnel listen on port 465, and connect to
> >127.0.0.1 port 25.
>
> Actually, this is only going to work if it is for your internal users.
It
> won't allow other mailservers to connect to yours using SSL.
Specifically,
> RFC2487 (unfortunately!) requires the TLS connection to occur over port
25,
> requiring the complete cooperation of IMail.  So it can't be done.
>

Theoretically stunnel can do the starttls negotiation. How well, or how it
interacts with imail I can't say.

Of course (because imail is bran-dead and grabs all IPs on the box) that
would mean either running stunnel on a separate box, or running imail SMTP
on something other than port 25. Neithe of which may be desirable.

Jerry




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