LMTP STARTTLS and certificates

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Wed Sep 11 17:27:47 EDT 2002


Quoting Matt Bernstein <mb/cyrus at dcs.qmul.ac.uk>:

> At 11:38 -0400 Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
> >Matt Bernstein wrote:
> >> >> So.. I can't use AUTH EXTERNAL.. what am I missing?
> >> >
> >> >I'm by no means an expert, but I _think_ what you need is a cert with
> an
> >> >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.

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