On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 08:35:27AM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > 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. >
I would be intrested too. > > 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. > AFAIK SMTP over SSL should no longer be used because it is no longer a "valid standard". At least the IETF thinks that all should use STARTTLS instead of smtp over ssl. Btw. for MTA only STARTTLS will be used. > > 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. > You should change the question. Which MUA does support SMTP over SSL only. Because most MUA that have a ssl knob do STARTTLS. Mail.app, Eudora, Mozilla are the ones I know that can do STARTTLS. -- :wq Claudio
