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Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs
From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:45:08 +0100
* Jeff Mitchell:
I've been seeing some odd behavior today with some of the servers that respond to smtp.comcast.net on port 587. Some, but not all, of the servers are presenting self-signed certs, causing my own server to balk at making a connection. (The Organization is RTFM, Inc. -- it'd be funny if mail wasn't queueing up on my end). Sometimes I get a server with a legit cert, so I can slowly drain my queue by flushing it over and over and over...
There's no PKI for Internet Mail routing, so I don't see what you get by checking certificates at all.
Current thread:
- smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Jeff Mitchell (Jan 15)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Florian Weimer (Jan 16)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Adrian Chadd (Jan 16)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Florian Weimer (Jan 16)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Tony Finch (Jan 16)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Jeff Mitchell (Jan 16)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Tony Finch (Jan 16)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Owen DeLong (Jan 16)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Eric Tow (Jan 16)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Jeff Mitchell (Jan 16)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Adrian Chadd (Jan 16)
- Re: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs Florian Weimer (Jan 16)