On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> I unfortunately haven't had the time to look at the SSL support that's in
> exim now, and it may be able to do SSL directly on the ssmtp port, without
> the unneeded STARTTLS stuff.
It *needs* STARTTLS, not only because the RFC says so, but so that Exim
knows to call the OpenSSL library function which does the server end of
a TLS session negotiation. If the client just starts negotiating without
sending STARTTLS, what Exim sees is invalid SMTP commands...
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