On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, James R Grinter wrote: > From: James R Grinter <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:20:22 > Subject: Re: [exim] Send mail via Port 465 > > On 10 Mar 2014, at 9:06, soumya tr wrote: > > > But telnet <hostname> 465 just quits when I enter EHLO: > > that's because it's configured for TLS on connect - which means > you need to be 'talking' TLS straight away. (As opposed to 587, > which requires a step up from plain SMTP to TLS with "STARTTLS") > > try using the openssl command line tool, with "openssl s_client > -connect <hostname>:465". Then you'll see the standard SMTP > banner. > > If you want to test 587, openssl s_client has a -starttls option > that makes it easy: but you need to also specify the protocol (try > "openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect <hostname>:587"
John Jetmore's SWAKS package: http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/ is also useful for testing/trouble-shooting SMTP transactions. -- Dennis Davis <[email protected]> -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
