Re: [Exim] [PATCH] ssmtp (old-style SSL) support for exim 3.…

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Author: Joachim Wieland
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [PATCH] ssmtp (old-style SSL) support for exim 3.3x viainetd for old style SSL MTAs ...
Hi,

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:02:20PM +0900, Toshio Kumagai wrote:
> >         /usr/sbin/stunnelsmtp -d 465 -r 587 -p /path/to/mail.pem -- ssmtp


>     Yep.
>     I cannot understand the difference between his patch
>     and exim over stunnel.
>     I've ran exim with stunnel over ssmtp (465/tcp) since
>     exim release 2.x.
>     I remember that 3.16x is the first experimental release
>     of exim with TLS(STARTTLS).


The difference is that you don't get the real IP of the client that uses
the mail server but the local IP instead. You really don't want to have
this if you're doing SMTP-after-POP.

I solved the problem by running a wrapper from stunnel that calls exim
with the -oMa option to set the IP though a patch to exim might be a nicer
solution.


Joachim

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