Re: [Exim] exim patch to use sendmail-tls

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Autor: Tom
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To: case
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] exim patch to use sendmail-tls
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 case@??? wrote:

> I recently joined this list and after looking through the 
> archives I havent seen anyone mentioning the possiblity of 
> using the sendmail-tls code with exim so Id like to 
> a) ask if anyone has patched exim so it will get along 
>    with sendmail-tls ( a wrapper around sendmail to take 
>    care of the TLS protocol, which, given the command line 
>    compatibility of exim with sendmail should work ) 

>
> b) get comments/suggestions for a 'hack' of the quick&dirty 
>    variety which appears to let me use sendmail-tls with 
>    exim, which basically consists of commenting out 

>
>     smtp_printf("451 SMTP service not available\r\n");
>            return FALSE;

>
>    in smtp_start_session(void)  in smtp_in.c  
>    This is where exim thinks its talking to a socket because 
>    getpeername() *appeared* to work, but in actuality returned 
>    bogus information.. which exim will go on to try to use in 
>    getsockopt() .. which fails. 

>
> * sendmail-tls is at http://opensource.3gi.com/sendmail-tls/
>
> Any comments/suggestions ?


sendmail-tls looks like another stunnel. stunnel can fake starttls
negotiation somehow. I've never used it though. See archives.

There is also a STARTTLS patch for Exim, that adds native TLS support to
Exim. This is definitely the way to go. See archives.

> Thanks
> Case
>
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