A SMTP TLS Shout Out To Chris Linfoot!

I have recently been working with a client to enable SMTP Transport Layer Security (TLS) for both in-bound and out-bound email. In this case, the project was a compliance-driven requirement from their customers: no TLS meant no more business. So after completing an upgrade of their AS400 server to Domino 7.0.2, we set out to enable TLS. We were having some configuration difficulties and were able to validate what we were doing through an excellent post entitled "Setting up Domino SMTP TLS" on Chris Linfoot's blog. So I want to give a special shout-out to Chris for sharing his knowledge with the Lotus community on his blog. Thanks Chris!

For those of you looking to enable secure e-mail communications, you should take a look at TLS. There are limitations and potential server performance impacts, but it is still worth looking at. You can find out more about TLS on the Wikipedia and in the Domino 7 administration help files.