So..
First, you need to determine if SBC have port 587 SSL/TLS_on_connect,
or STARTTLS.
Easy enuf to do...
If Thunderbird is working with the 'Outbound Server' set to 'TLS is
available' it should be STARTTLS.
If it had to be set to 'TLS Only' the SBC box should be
SSL/TLS_on_connect
You can confirm the former with a telnet session, wherein your first
EHLO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- gets you a rather short list of advertised services, with STARTTLS
among them.
Respond 'STARTTLS' and expect a second, longer, advert.
Try it first against port 25 of your Exim box:
==========================
*telnet oculardata.com 25*
Trying 67.43.2.202...
Connected to oculardata.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-host.oculardata.com ESMTP Exim 4.52 #1 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:24:33
-0500
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.
*ehlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250-host.oculardata.com Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] [<calling IP>]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP
*quit*
221 host.oculardata.com closing connection
============================
If you get the same sort of response from SBC, then all you *should*
need to do is 'point' Exim to port 587 instead of port 25 for
connecting to that box (not necessarily for working to others).
Exim will actually 'depart' your box on 'none of the above', i.e. some
port well above 1024.
HTH,
Bill
Ah crap... if I log onto my outside box, I can telnet oculardata.com 587
and it does just as yours does above... but if I do it from a box
(windows or linux) from inside my house, I get nothing.
Is it possible that SBC is actually blocking port 587 as well? Or is it
something I'm doing that would block that... seems like it's time to
call SBC, but I'll have to wait til tomorrow.
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