Re: [courier-users] SSL options

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Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Leon Brits writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've installed (emerge) Courier-pop3 on one of my servers and am using
>> it with the clients all set to use TLS. This works fine in the lab.
>> However, thanks to some other SSL equipment on our network, I must
>> disable "compression" of the SSL flows. Apparently it is a flag set in
>> the SSL record during the initial negotiation process.
>>
>> Can I control this "flag" via a config file or set some compile option
>> or? or USE flag in Gentoo?
>
> OpenSSL's documentation makes no mention of any compression option,
> except a global option to enable compression methods, which the
> current code does not use, so your OpenSSL library must enable
> compression by default, with no way to shut it off.
>
> The just-released development tarball has a new option to use GnuTLS
> instead of OpenSSL, which does have a compression setting. Note
> however that GnuTLS does not implement SSL2.

Sam,

Any particular reason for adding GnuTLS? Does it perform better or is
it just to offer more options on a variety of platforms? Will OpenSSL
continue to be the default on systems like Fedora that offer both?

Thanks again for a great MTA!

Jay

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Jay Lee
Network/Systems Administrator
Information Technology Department
Philadelphia Biblical University


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