Bug#283573: exim4: Server-side AUTH: require TLS

[Olaf van der Spek]

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2004-11-30 Olaf van der Spek <OvdSpek@LIACS.NL> wrote:
> 
>>Marc Haber wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:28:29AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>Configuring the server-side entries is not so easy since you need a
>>>certificate for that.
> 
> 
>>True, but TLS is quite easy to setup.
> 
> 
> If you are not going for a self-signed certificate it is not, and
> afaik for a SMTP server self-signed is not good enough as there are
> picky clients.

I think secure AUTH with a self-signed certificate by default is still 
better than no AUTH at all by default.