Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> writes: > I maybe confused about the term for MTAs using ssl to deliver mail to > me. I just feel wrong using tls for delivering mail to other servers or > atleast a hop, without letting them do the same.
Well, spamd never actually tries to deliver mail. In a normal scenario, the hosts that will talk to spamd are ones that have never delivered mail to your site before (greylisting) or the ones we know are trying to deliver spam (already blacklisted somewhere, greytrapped etc). I suppose the day may come eventually when spammers will only try to deliver if the other side announces TLS available, but we're certainly not there yet. It's a lot more useful to keep it simple: set up your real mail server with TLS and forget about complicating the path to spamd. After all, it's only the whitelisted hosts that will actually need a secure connection. - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
