On Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:26:31 -0700, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> writes: >> Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >>> Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> writes: > >>>> Certificates are usually only used in E-Mail when a server authenticates >>>> itself to a client before the client sends its authentication data. SMTP >>>> with client certificates is possible, but I have only seen this two >>>> times in 15 years of running E-Mail servers. > >>> All mail servers I run are configured with TLS certificates because >>> that's how you encrypt SMTP traffic between servers. > >> That's not a contradiction to what I have written. > >You said that certificates are usually only used in e-mail when a server >authenticates itself to a client. That's the statement with which I'm >partly disagreeing.
Now I see that I didn't write what I wanted to write. I just wanted to say that client certificates are really seldomly used in SMTP. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1ukjvd-0000ne...@swivel.zugschlus.de
