Rob Brenart wrote:

Bill Hacker wrote:

Marc Sherman wrote:

Rob Brenart wrote:


Thanks for the advice... it is a debian list, so I've asked on the exim4 debian user's list and we'll see if I get any hits... in case it matters though, I tried your command and received the following... but no message delivered. However, I think I see the problem, :25... I'm pretty sure I need to be coming in over 465 with SSL... trying to find in the docs how to set this now



Exim does not support tls-on-connect (port 465) as a client. You'll have to use stunnel or something.

- Marc


AFAIK Exim supports tls_on_connect on any port you specify.  RTFM.

In addition to a menagerie of non-standard ports, I was even trialing it on port 80 a few days ago.

Gets around firewalls quite nicely, but throws some weird log entries when search-bots try to crawl a non-existent webpage...

;-)

Bill Hacker


I did RTFM and it claimed it would all "just work", it doesn't... and I can't seem to find an entry about how to make it try port 465 instead of 25


There is a simpler way to annotate it, but this should cover it all:
=============================================

local_interfaces = <your first IP> : <your next IP>

# Defaults to all if not mentioned.

daemon_smtp_ports = 25 : <second port>: <third port>: <fourth port> : 465 :<fifth port>

# defaults to 25 if not mentioned

tls_on_connect_ports = 465 : <next port> (( those ones will work the old SSL protocol))

#defaults to none, AFAIK, but runs TLS on all.
#Note that there is no colon after the last entry.

tls_certificate = /usr/local/etc/exim/certs/<your cert filename>
#You did generate & install a cert?

tls_advertise_hosts = *

tls_remember_esmtp = yes

# These to get esmtps // esmtpsa TLS end-to-end with hosts that grok it

auth_advertise_hosts = ${if eq{$tls_cipher}{}{}{*}}
# there are variations on this

===============================================

But Mark's point still applies to MUA's (e-mail clients).

- Not all will allow selection of the port you want.

- Many will not allow selection between TLS, and TLS-on-connect,
(which is a new name for the older SSL protocol).

You also need to sort the issue of authentication credentials as to PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAMD5, SASSL, PEM

- Not all MUA's allow all choices - some make assumptions.

Mozilla Suite mailer is one that will do.  There are many others.

HTH,

Bill



--
## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/
## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/

Reply via email to