Hey folks,

I have a basic roaming laptop 'situation' -- ie laptop moves around
between different networks. I also have a public mail server on a static
IP address.

I thought for various reasons it would be convienient for my laptop to
relay mail through my server. The normal way to do this seems to be with
SASL authentication to the server. But I don't want to send mail in what
I call Evolution-style, where the MUA authenticates directly to the
public mail server. I want to send it mutt style, where I insert it into
the *local* mail queue on the laptop, and the laptop's MTA authenticates
to upstream.

It looks like TLS is good for this. Theorectically, I can just give the
server the client's public key, and say "any client who can send
messages decrypted by this public key (ie, the client with the private
key), you're allowed to relay for".

But I've been mucking around all night with self-signed certs, and the
bazillion Postfix options listed at
http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/pfixtls/doc/conf.html
without much luck. Anyone got a short client-Postfix to server-Postfix
TLS guide to setting up keys and configuring the NECESSARY variables?
I'm not interested in SASL at this time, unless it is necessary to use
it and I've missed the reason.

Thanks,

Mary
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