Bug 19534

Summary:	sendmail should be built with TLS and AUTH
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <dale+bz>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Dale Lovelace <dale>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	7.0	CC:	dr, leif
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Description Need Real Name 2000-10-22 02:15:49 UTC

My suggestion:  In future Redhat releases (or even in an interim update),
it would
be good to build sendmail with support for Transport Layer Security
(STARTTLS)
and Authentication (AUTH).

It's nice that Redhat 7.0 is up to sendmail 8.11.0, but it would be even
nicer if
it was built with sendmail's new support turned on for TLS and
Authentication.  It would significantly enhance email security and privacy
if
those features were available by default in Redhat systems.

Thanks.

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2000-10-22 14:14:25 UTC

Hmm.  Upon further study, I see that sendmail _is_ built for AUTH (although not
for TLS).
It would still be nice if sendmail was by default built for STARTTLS, though.

I didn't see AUTH in the reply to EHLO because there was no file /etc/sasldb.
Once I created that file (using saslpasswd) AUTH was presented in the EHLO
capability response.

Comment 2 Florian La Roche 2001-02-07 11:38:06 UTC

The current rpm should be ok. Requiring saslpasswd should also be ok.
Please open a new bugreport is anything is still missing.