Bug 19534 - sendmail should be built with TLS and AUTH
Summary: sendmail should be built with TLS and AUTH
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sendmail
Version: 7.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: Dale Lovelace
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-22 02:15 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-07 11:38:11 UTC
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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.
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