On Wed, 12 May 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>  You can use ucspi-ssl package instead of patched uscpi-tcp for
> POP3/SMTP(and any other TCP services) over SSL.
> 
>       http://www.superscript.com/ucspi-ssl/intro.html
> 
> We have used this for last two weeks and that works fine :-). 

I was looking at that too.  The SSL patch for tcpserver was on the
qmail-ldap home page and that's why I used it, but I've been getting
some very annoying errors:

2004-05-12 08:12:54.215310500 qmail-smtpd 3346: message queued: 1084363974 qp 3348
2004-05-12 08:12:54.215322500 qmail-smtpd 3346: write error, connection closed

which just means the SSL connection was closed.  The behavior of
Mozilla in this instance is to show a progress dialog that doesn't
close automatically (you have to "Cancel") and when you cancel, the
write error occurs and the message goes out.  I tried debugging with
"openssl s_client" but didn't see anything unusual.  Very bizarre,
let's see if ucspi-ssl fixes this problem.

If anyone has seen this problem, I would really appreciate a pointer.

>  We need both SMTP over SSL and STARTTLS because MS Outlook
>  (Express) supports only SMTP over SSL but Mozilla Mailer(such as
>  Thunderbird) does only STARTLS... So we use qmail-smtpd with
>  STARTTLS and ucspi-ssl.

Mozilla 1.6 and above can do SMTP over SSL in addition to TLS.  I
don't use Thunderbird but if the main Mozilla trunk has the feature,
it's reasonable to expect it in Thunderbird eventually.

> BTW if you know some MUA except Mozilla Mailer which can use
> STARTTLS for SMTP, please let me.

Gnus can do it, and it's a very excellent MUA in all other aspects as
well.


Ted

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