Wingate as Mailserver

[Niwre]

Hi Adrien,

I want to use Wingate as a direct e-mail server without my provider. I have an MX record, currently still at a lower priority than my provider. The domain and the mailboxes I created in Wingate and the service for the SMTP server has a binding to an external adapter.
I have thought of everything or do I need additional settings? Can I use STARTTLS on Port 25 with an official SSL certificate?

Regards
Niwre

[adrien]

Hi

Yes you can use STARTTLS with a cert. If you're using WinGate 8, you can import the cert, else it is a bit of a mission to get an externally provided cert into WinGate.

Fundamentally to get the cert into WinGate 7 and prior, you need to

a) convert the cert to PEM format, including the private key. This will involve a password to protect the private key. There are various ways to do this, most common uses command line openssl.exe to do it.
b) create a new cert in WinGate, choose to encrypt the cert, this will prompt for a password. Use the same password as step a
c) replace the file it creates with the converted cert from (a). These live in WinGate\Certificates
d) restart WinGate.

Regards

Adrien

[Niwre]

Hi Adrien,

can I check it when a client has used STARTTLS?

Regards
Erwin

[adrien]

Hi

you can see this in 2 ways.

1. The icon in activity changes to a padlock email icon
2. If you enable debug logging for the SMTP server, you can see the STARTTLS command if it is issued by the client.

Regards

Adrien