LMTP STARTTLS and certificates

[Matt Bernstein]

At 17:27 -0400 Ken Murchison wrote:

>Quoting Matt Bernstein <mb/cyrus at dcs.qmul.ac.uk>:
>> At 11:38 -0400 Ken Murchison wrote:
>> >> >authid as the CN.  lmtpd is looking for a user to authenticate, not a
>> >> >client machine.  You need a cert like you would use for an email client
>> >> >like Netscape or Outlook.
>> >>
>> >> OK.. so "CN=postman" in my case? Will try..
>> >
>> >You _should_ be able to use any authid as long as you make them an
>> >lmtp_admin.
>>  ^^^^^^^^^^
>> 
>> What's one of those? I don't find it in *.[ch] or doc/ in the source
>> tree, and Google can't find it.
>
>lmtp_admins in imapd.conf lists admins for lmtpd only.

I can't find that in any documentation! Anyway, that has no effect for me.  
I'm afraid I'll have to give up--I really think there's a bug in Cyrus :(

Thank you very very much for trying to help. For my next trick, I'll now 
try to prove Exim can do AUTH EXTERNAL with no mods to the source..