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Jerry Heyman

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Oct 27, 2010, 11:12:46 PM10/27/10
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I've just upgraded to AT&T U-Verse and now I'm having all sorts of
MH issues.

Seems that AT&T requires the use of SSL login handshaking on port
465.

Is there a set of options that I can place in .mh_profile that will
help handle these changes?

Thanks in advance,

jerry
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HASM

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Oct 28, 2010, 9:35:16 AM10/28/10
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Jerry Heyman <hey...@acm.org> writes:

> Seems that AT&T requires the use of SSL login handshaking on port
> 465.
> Is there a set of options that I can place in .mh_profile that will
> help handle these changes?

No idea there, but why not use fetchmail/procmail/mh-inc-from-file inbound
and local postfix outbound? Fetcmail/postfix can be configured to do all
the TLS/SSL authentication, and that's what I've been running for a few
years now.

-- HASM

J G Miller

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Oct 28, 2010, 10:20:45 AM10/28/10
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:12:46 -0400, Jerry Heyman asked:

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> Is there a set of options that I can place in .mh_profile that will help
> handle these changes?

These type of options would not go in .mh_profile but in /etc/nmh/mts.conf
or equivalent.

From what I can tell, MH does not yet support SSL directly, but there
have been some attempts at hacking the code to enable such functionality.

Have a look at the discussion at

<http://www.mail-archive.com/nmh-w...@nongnu.org/msg01920.html>

The better way is to install a local MTA (exim4, postfix, sendmail),
get MH to pass the mail to that MTA (via a line in mts.conf) and
then let the MTA negotiate an SSL connection to the AT&T mailer.

Jerry Heyman

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Oct 28, 2010, 6:50:43 PM10/28/10
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J G Miller wrote:

Am running postfix, so I'll work my way through that.

Thanks!

J G Miller

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Oct 29, 2010, 9:22:06 AM10/29/10
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On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:50:43 -0400, Jerry Heyman wrote:
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> Am running postfix, so I'll work my way through that.

From personal preference, I would recommend you to use exim4 ;)

Nontheless for postfix, this is probably the best place from
which to start working --

<http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html>

You most probably will need to create a certificate for your postfix
mailer to use to identify its-self.

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