Topic: Changes to SMTP Server

[edform]

The only thing different for SME server 8 is the change in policy. Any advice about configuration of clients to enable encryption and authentication apply equally to both, as does advice about dealing with self-signed certificates.

The pulling of unauthorised Port 25 has thrown quite a few people who, like me, have always set up systems without reference to encryption or certificates, so having an easy to follow Howto will help. It can always be discarded when the manual covers the subject in an easy-to-follow way.

Here it is...

http://wiki.contribs.org/Email_-_Setting_up_E-mail_clients_for_SME_8.0

Ed Form

[byte]

Nice "how to" Ed Should help others who will probably stumble across this.

Another note, if you want to go bit more advanced, I've just tried this morning is to create a cacert.org using

http://wiki.contribs.org/Custom_CA_Certificate

This will allow the use of setting the incoming/outgoing path to any wild card domain in outlook, you then only update the server cert and the clients are none of the wiser after you install the cacert root cert from:

http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3

[johnp]

There used to be another good how to regarding custom self signed certificate creation but it seems to be gone now

[byte]

There used to be another good how to regarding custom self signed certificate creation but it seems to be gone now

Maybe you mean this one?

http://wiki.contribs.org/Certificates_signed_by_own_CA

[johnp]

Yes that's the one. I don't know how I missed it  Thanks

I've used that with some modifications to the subject alternative name section to make my certs.

Just thought, if using this on 8 you might want to verify the signiture algorithm. This has been changed

[edform]

I just updated the Howto at http://wiki.contribs.org/Email_-_Setting_up_E-mail_clients_for_SME_8.0 to include installing certificates with older email clients that do not have a link to the certificate installation routine and early versions of Outlook with a single tickbox for SSL encryption.

Ed Form