On 05/25/2007 11:13 AM, Trevor Cordes wrote:
I just had my first complaint from a notebook customer -- I see now what John was referring to.
I'm looking for an easy solution for my notebook-roaming customers to have access to SMTP (or encrypted variant). Can anyone suggest some tips or suggestions on setting up one of the following:
Having sendmail listen on 2 ports, 25 and (say) 26. Can I just add the 2nd (26) line to the .mc and sendmail will listen on both as opposed to just 25? Or is it a 25 OR 26 but not both type thing?
Set up SSL or TLS or whatever it's called this week in sendmail and have sendmail listen on both 25 and whatever other port. How easy is it to setup this stuff in sendmail on 20 mail servers? How easy is it to setup Outlook/OE to talk to sendmail in this way?
I don't have any experience setting up an SMTP server to support TLS or SSL, but the client-side setup is quite easy. For roaming access with a laptop computer, authenticated SMTP on an alternate port is definitely the preferred solution, if you have access to an SMTP server that supports it. (Fortunately for me, the U of M's main mail server does, so I didn't need to set it up myself.)
The client setup is described here for about 6 different common mail clients:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/computing/ist/applications/activekb/questions/133