On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:40:36PM -0400, James P. Roberts wrote:
> (7) By setting Stunnel to listen on that port, and simply have it
> redirect the connection to localhost:25, and also negotiate "smtps" (see
> below), it works! This eliminates the "dropped connection" error
> (0x800CCC0F) that OE gives when using encryption to any port other than
> 25.
Thanks to Philip you can now have exim 4.03 listen for encrypted connections
on a different port (i.e. not use stunnel)
> I suspect I am going to have problems the first time I get a customer
> that uses Netscape email, and also uses an ISP that hi-jacks SMTP
No, netscape does the right thing.
Just put smtp.domain.tld:2525 and it'll work (using STARTTLS)
And to answer the question, no 2525 isn't special, I just picked it like
others picked 8080 for an alternate web port
Marc
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