LMTP STARTTLS and certificates

Matt Bernstein mb/cyrus at dcs.qmul.ac.uk
Wed Sep 11 10:40:59 EDT 2002


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..

Thanks for your continuing help :)





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