anyone got advice on sendmail and TLS on 8.1?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 11 18:13:46 UTC 2010


On Sunday, October 10, 2010 5:22:01 pm Julian Elischer wrote:
>   When I last did sendmail there wasn't any TLS/SSL stuff.
> 
> has anyone got an exact howto  as to how to enable a simple sendmail 
> server?
> 
> all I want is:
> 
> TLS and authenticated email submission by me and my family
> able to forward the email anywhere (maybe just to my ISP but who 
> knows) (outgoing)
> non TLS submission from outside to reject all mail not to 
> elischer.{org,com}
> and deliver our mail to mailboxes or gmail (or where-ever /etc/aliases 
> says.).
> 
> This is probably ALMOST a default configuration
> but I can't be sure what is needed.. there are several
> howtos on hte net but they are generally old and differ in details.

Your best bet is probably to look at the docs on sendmail.org.  You need to 
recompile the sendmail in base against SASL and need to install cyrus-sasl2 
from ports to manage your authentication database.

-- 
John Baldwin


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