Re: [Exim] AOL blocks SSL/TLS?

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Author: Matt Bernstein
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To: James P. Roberts
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] AOL blocks SSL/TLS?
On Apr 21 James P. Roberts wrote:

>Problem solved, with extensive thanks to the kind and intelligent people
>on this list.

[snip]
>(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.


I do hope you're insisting on AUTH on localhost:25, otherwise
congratulations you're an open relay on port 465 ;)

I have a similar setup to you, but I forward to port 587 which requires
AUTH. (See one of my posts from about two-three weeks ago--search for
"thanks stunnel".)