Re: unixware 7.1.4 sendmail and ssl

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Ron Kirschner wrote:

My client has been using sendmail from their UnixWare server to send invoices, AR statements, etc via email. They just changed their mail server to Gmail, which requires SSL. Is this possible, or is there any other way to handle this?



I assume you mean that it requies SSL for 'SMTP-auth', the ability to submit email messages to the host over an encrypted channel. That's mostly built into *clients*, and almost every mail client supports this today, even if you need to recompile. It's also common to use it for IMAP and POP, to protect reader's passwords.

I'm surprised if they require SSL for host-to-host traffic, though.

I guess Ron wants to use Gmail SMTP sever as his smarthost to relay his outbound email. To do this, Gmail demands you to have a Gmail account and to use the STARTTLS SMTP verb, which means SSL. So he wants to use the OpenServer Sendmail to connect to Gmail's SMTP over SSL with login and password, to relay his outbound email.

I use Postfix so I cannot help with Sendmail issues here...
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