enforcing SSL if you use SMTP-AUTH (qmail)

meyerm

Hi there,

I'm using the qmail-r10 ebuild with the smtp-auth patch. And it even worked... :-)

OK, now I'm always getting an "authorization failed", don't know why, but this is an issue I will try to solve during the next hours. ;-)

My question here is: I want users to use SSL if they send mail (of course using smtp-auth). I want to _force_ them using TLS, no plain text for IMAP or SMTP-AUTH. How can I say qmail to only accept TLS-secured AUTH-requests?

Thank you,
Marcel

OmniVector · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Posts: 37 Location: Rochester, NY

how'd you get TLS enabled with qmail-smtpd?

I've installed the r10 ebuild on a test system, but i don't see anywhere the option to actually RUN it as ssl. i've manually isntalled qmail and patched auth into smtp, so i'm hesitant to switch my actual release box to qmail r10 until i know the auth/ssl support in this ebuild works flawless on my test machine.
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-Tristan

Praxxus · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 5:48 pm Post subject: Something to try . . .

First, of course, you have to apply the appropriate TLS patches. I don't know if the ebuild takes care of that or not. If you want help with that too, just let me know!

Anyhoo, once you get SMTP-AUTH+TLS up and running, here's how you make its use mandatory: Assuming you are using tcpserver to launch qmail, add the following to your qmail-smtpd/run file: