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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2014-11-06 21:22:18 +0000
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2014-11-06 21:22:18 +0000
commita320fabd09f43c02c869c90a5a5a70a49dd77f89 (patch)
tree341ccb129d815e0c2daa6c0b8531fc0d4756eb7d /doc/doc-txt
parent09c17790eec23907b93df1ec7cee746b28dfc836 (diff)
EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES: Hostlist for cert name checks should match host
connected-to, not be list of acceptable names. The name checked is the host name.
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diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
index 266e19891..f6529c6e2 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
@@ -1154,14 +1154,17 @@ support to date has not made these checks.
If built with EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES defined, code is
included to do so for server certificates, and a new smtp transport option
-"tls_verify_cert_hostnames" supported which takes a list of
-names for which the additional checks must be made.
+"tls_verify_cert_hostnames" supported which takes a hostlist
+which must match the target host for the additional checks must be made.
The option currently defaults to empty, but this may change in
the future. "*" is probably a suitable value.
Whether certificate verification is done at all, and the result of
it failing, is stll under the control of "tls_verify_hosts" nad
"tls_try_verify_hosts".
+The name being checked is that for the host, generally
+the result of an MX lookup.
+
Both Subject and Subject-Alternate-Name certificate fields
are supported, as are wildcard certificates (limited to
a single wildcard being the initial component of a 3-or-more