December 2003
Beginner
278 pages
10h 47m
English
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Postfix and TLS
Support for TLS in Postfix is provided by a set of patches written by Lutz Jänicke. You can follow the link for Add-on Software from the Postfix home page to download the patches. (See Appendix C for information on building Postfix with the TLS patches.) If you are using a prebuilt Postfix package for your platform, make sure that it has the TLS patches built in.
In addition to compiling Postfix to support TLS, you must also create and configure TLS certificates. You need both a private key and a public key. The public key is a signed certificate identifying your server. It is validated and digitally signed by a certificate authority (CA), which attests that your certificate does, in fact, identify your system (see sidebar in TLS Certificates Brief Overview). In addition to your own certificates, you must also have the public key of the CA that signed your certificate.
You can register with any of the many CAs to obtain a signed certificate, or you can act as your own CA. The clients connecting to your TLS-enabled server must recognize and acknowledge the CA you use and agree to accept it as an authority to attest to your identity. Generally, it is a fairly simple configuration option in email clients to accept a certificate and have the CA public key added to its list of trusted authorities if it isn’t listed already.
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