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smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs
- Subject: smtp.comcast.net self-signed certs
- From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:45:08 +0100
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Jeff Mitchell's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:09:11 -0500")
- References: <[email protected]>
* 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.