[CentOS] SMTP using SSL + TLS

Wed Jul 5 08:30:39 UTC 2006
dennis f. castaneda <dennis at bulacan.gov.ph>

thank you sir rodrigo barbosa for your quickly responce you would suggest to 
me a TLS not SSL, can give pointe how to do that, i want to secure my 
connection for outgoing to my mail server,any suggestion sir,thank you again.


On Wednesday 05 July 2006 16:11, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:10:02PM +0800, dennis f. castaneda wrote:
> > hello to ALL
> >
> > I have installed CentOS 4.3 final configuring mail server with postfix
> > for MTA ,i want to implement outgoing mail (SMTP) using/requiring a
> > secure connection (SSL),any links/guide that might be suggest to solve my
> > solve my problem,any suggestion will appreciates,thank you to all,please
> > help me.
>
> You are going to have a lot of trouble using SMTP over SSL. It is, really,
> not worth the effort, even tho it is possible.
>
> Your best luck is using just TLS, which can be negotiated over a
> regular SMTP connection.
>
> I really can't give you pointers, since I never implemented it
> using Postfix, only Exim.
>
> If you really want to implemente SMTP over SSL, I suggest you
> take a look at stunnel (avaliable on CentOS).