installing ssl with postfix - question of need

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:16:02 -0700 wade at wadesmart.com wrote:
>10252006 0913 GMT-6
>
>With all the onlist and off list help I have been receiving, I have now
>expanded what I want to do with my email. I want to grab my email from
>Yahoo and Gmail as well. I was pointed to a tutorial for using postfix
>with ssl but I found myself with this question.
>
>When I connect to some mail server, whether it be Gmail or my own, they
>are the ones with the SSL certificate. I just have to have something
>that works with their authorization and security parameters. Right? But
>does that mean I have to install OpenSSL?

Yes, although you may have it already for other reasons.  If you go to 
www.postfix.org and look in the documentation section.  There is a TLS 
readme that is pretty good.

You will need a certificate too.  There is no reason you can't make your 
own.

Scott K