>Recently I've changed my Internet connection from DSL to UVerse (both >managed by AT&T), but with UVerse I now have to deal with yahoo.com's >mail service. They require the use of port 465 (smtps) and MAIL-AUTH.
I think your termology doesn't quite match what I'm used to (and what the RFCs specify). If by MAIL-AUTH you mean SMTP AUTH, defined by RFC 4954, then nmh already has supported that for a decade. If by "smtps" you mean "SMTP with TLS", then no, we don't support that yet. People have talked about it, but no one has written the code. There are two general approaches: doing a TLS negotiation at connection start (which I guess is what happens on port 465, although that is not a standardized port; that port is reserved for a Cisco protocol called "urd"), and doing a "STARTTLS" command as part of the SMTP exchange. We should be doing the latter. >I started working my way through the code, taking advantage of the sylpheed >email GUI program I use for hints. It was slow going as I tried to keep the >code in the same style. I got to the point where I was going to have to >suck in a bunch of base64 encoding/decoding code when I stopped as this was >no longer going to be a quick fix. I was not aware you needed a base64 encoder for TLS; are you sure you're not talking about the SASL support defined by RFC 4954? Because we do have base64 encoding/decoding as part of that (also as part of the MIME support, of course). >The question that still out there is whether or not nmh should support >smtps. If so, I'm more than willing to go back into the code and work >on it. Would this be of interest? What kind of schedule are we looking >at for nmh 1.4 (so I can gauge my time/commitment)? There is definitely interest in TLS support, and I think it would be perfectly appropriate for nmh to support it. I don't think anyone has proposed a release schedule for 1.4; someone did suggest calling it 2.0. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
