how do I get STARTTLS working with sendmail on FreeBSD 10.3 ?

[William Dudley]

I have news for you.  Unless this feature was just removed from
sendmail/FreeBSD, it should
work.  It WAS WORKING until November 2016.

Bill Dudley


This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Jim Ohlstein <jim at ohlste.in> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 3/18/17 6:44 PM, William Dudley wrote:
>
>> A google search does not reveal a useful answer.
>>
>> I just want to use a self-signed certificate so I can get my email from my
>> FreeBSD mail server to my cell phone.  My FreeBSD server runs sendmail.
>> I don't really want to switch to postfix, qmail, etc. etc.
>>
>>
> I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you after all this time and effort,
> but AFAIK Sendmail speaks neither POP3 nor IMAP so you  cannot use it as an
> MDA. You can use it to *send* email from your phone, but not to retrieve
> it. You also can use it to forward mails to another email address from
> which you can retrieve it, of that's what you want.
>
> If you want to retrieve emails using your phone's email client, you will
> need an MDA. I use mail/dovecot2.
>
> I know that you do not want to install a different MTA, but after all this
> effort I'd suggest trying Exim. TLS is supported out of the box (in the
> default ports/packages configuration) and is extremely easy to configure
> [1]. You can use Dovecot authorization [2] with Exim, killing two birds
> with one stone.
>
> [1] http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-
> encrypted_smtp_connections_using_tlsssl.html - see Section 6
>
> [2] http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL
>
> --
> Jim Ohlstein
>
>
> "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the
> difference." - Mark Twain
>