LMTP STARTTLS and certificates

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Wed Sep 11 11:38:09 EDT 2002



Matt Bernstein wrote:
> 
> At 09:39 -0400 Ken Murchison 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.

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