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| From | Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> |
| Newsgroups | comp.mail.sendmail |
| Subject | Re: Mandatory STARTTLS ? |
| Date | Fri, 30 Jan 2026 07:38:54 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Lines | 25 |
| Message-ID | <20260130073854.5dcab3d5@ryz.dorfdsl.de> (permalink) |
| References | <10lgddc$1ud8$1@gal.iecc.com> |
| MIME-Version | 1.0 |
| Content-Type | text/plain; charset=US-ASCII |
| Content-Transfer-Encoding | 7bit |
| Injection-Date | Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:38:59 +0000 (UTC) |
| Injection-Info | dont-email.me; posting-host="e3607ad0da1673149fd5ed9106b29e1c"; logging-data="2003944"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+yURK19rYpVxVLiAChI/GI" |
| Cancel-Lock | sha1:i++FGwSN42Kd4+K0RlQtTPMna+U= |
| X-Newsreader | Claws Mail 4.3.1 (GTK 3.24.51; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
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On 29.01.2026 19:45 Uhr John Levine wrote: > The other group says there are still corner cases where plain text is > useful, e.g., dusty printers saying they're out of paper, or mail to > postmaster telling him that his cert has expired, and if you want to > mandate TLS on your own system, you have MTA-STS and DANE. There are many machines that don't support it or only support only ciphers that current OS versions don't support. Some of them are rather new. > What do you think? Any chance sendmail would completely remove > non-STARTTLS mail? I hope not, as that means old versions will be kept to support the old (and sometimes expensive) devices. IIRC you can actually configure sendmail to only accept mail with startls, see DAEMON_OPTIONs etc. -- kind regards Marco Send spam to 1769712348muell@stinkedores.dorfdsl.de
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Mandatory STARTTLS ? John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-01-29 19:45 +0000 Re: Mandatory STARTTLS ? Claus Aßmann <INVALID_NO_CC_REMOVE_IF_YOU_DO_NOT_POST_ml+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@esmtp.org> - 2026-01-30 00:57 -0500 Re: Mandatory STARTTLS ? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-01-30 07:38 +0100
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