On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, spaze wrote:

> Wednesday, August 18, 2004, 5:14:49 PM, Mark Powell wrote:
> > Do you have it running on port 25 optionally supporting SSL by STARTTLS?
>
> no, on dedicated port (465)
>
> > Or is that not possible?
>
> from my POV, no. stunnel is just a tunnel ;) and encrypts everything. It
> just can't decide when to encrypt and when not (at least I think, I haven't
> done much research into it)

I think you're right. I thought it could just forget the encryption if a
starttls was not issued as the 1st command, but it seems not. The
completely encrypted session along with the now working smtp auth means
qpsmtpd+stunnel can provide a service we have long been lacking.
  I've just set this up here, but it would still be interesting to also
see your config files.

> > How do you find pperl and which version of perl are you running it with?
>
> I'm running pperl as I'm little concerned about the pure perl server
> performance and haven't tried forkserver as there's no word about it
> anywhere ;) I was running it with 5.8.3 from Debian testing, and haven't
> found any problem. Recently I've upgraded the distro to 5.8.4 (again from
> Debian package) and also changed Linux kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.6.7 and no
> problem again. SpamAssassin stopped working after PErl upgrade (because of
> online tests I think - when disabled it run ok), but that's another story
> and upgrade to 3.0.0-pre version fixed it.

I'm doing some testing now. Perl v5.8.5 and PPerl 0.25. Seems ok so far,
but it's not under real load.

> > I'm tempted to try it, but stories of problems always put me off.
>
> I know^H^H^H^Hhave read about the problems, but have tried it and it works,
> so I'm quite lucky.

Hopefully I will too :)
  Cheers.

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