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

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Author: Toshio Kumagai
Date:  
To: Joachim Wieland
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [PATCH] ssmtp (old-style SSL) support for exim 3.3x viainetd for old style SSL MTAs ...
Joachim Wieland wrote:
>
> 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.


    Hmmm... I got it.
    But I'm using RFC2554, which is implemented in Exim.
    Working well with Communicator 4.x and 6.x


    Thanks for your inputs.

>
> 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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