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Re: SSL/TLS client?
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 12:40:53PM +0000, Alexey Lobanov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> As far as I understand, the SMTP client in Zmailer knows nothing
> about SSL encryption. So, we cannot build a secure channel between
> two Zmailer's. Even in TODO, this item is not mentioned.
>
> Are the things really so bad?
I just added following to TODO:
- SSL/TLS client functionality has been asked for repeatedly.
To implement it we must rewamp the entire FILE* abstraction
based socket buffering at the smtp program, PLUS at
libta/mimeheaders.c ( writeheaders() ) as well... Not so nice.
Yes, it is doable, but *not* easy.
> Regards,
> Alexey
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/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>
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