sendmail issues...

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 04.03.2004 schrieb Tim Welch um 19:41:
> Cool, thanks... Actually, I finally figured out (by increasing the debug
> level in the logs) that STARTTLS said it was "missing" the
> ServerCertFile... Which is odd, cause I didn't change anything, and even
> on the NEW fresh install, it should have been good, because I was using
> the DEFAULT auto-generated file... The file had the correct permissions,
> so I ended up copying and pasting the following line over my old one:
> 
> define(`confSERVER_CERT',`/usr/share/ssl/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl
> 
> from one of the web sites I was reading on how to set it up in the first
> place, and restarted the server and magically it worked... I guess there
> was some hidden tab or space or something in that line that I couldn't
> see, I've had that happen before with something else, which is really odd,
> but it NOW works, so I'm happy... The only thing I noticed, is that the
> first time I connect with outlook or evolution it tells me the certificate
> is bad, even though I created it exactly like it told me... but, it still
> accepts it none the less, and I could care less, as long as it works...
> 
> 
> Thanks!

Tim,

sendmail.cf is very critical, a space instead of a tabstop in it at the
wrong place and things go mad. That is one of the big advantages using
sendmail.mc and m4, either it fails and gives you error messages or it
will create a valid .cf file. So I doubt it was a wrong sign inside
sendmail.mc (space or wrong ticks `'), but I am sure it was your
sendmail.cf file copied with error(s) in it.

To your certificate "problem": be sure your self-signed certificate has
as CN the name of your mail host. As it is self-signed you have to
import the cacert into Windows[tm] (using Internet Explorer, Outlook can
use it then) as certificate authority. How that works on Linux with
Evolution I can not say. But Evolution asks you only one time and can
store this certificate information as accepted.

Alexander


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