On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, James P. Roberts wrote:
> (5) If you tell OE to use port 25 AND encryption, for SMTP, it
attempts
> STARTTLS, but only if STARTTLS is advertised by the server.
That is correct client behaviour. If a server does not advertise
STARTTLS, the client should not try to use it.
> (6) If you tell OE to use any port other than 25, AND encryption, it
> transmits only scrambled messages, including the "EHLO" message. It
> apparently assumes the port is expecting encrypted messages.
Looks like it is assuming an "smtps" port. The latest release of Exim
can handle this.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
I am thrilled to find out about Exim handling this! I am currently at
4.02. I will upgrade again shortly. No sense keeping the overhead of
Stunnel if I don't need to. Although, many thanks to the Stunnel people
for a fine and useful product. (I still use it for my POP3 and IMAP
servers).
Even more thanks to you, Sir, for a truly excellent piece of software.
Jim Roberts
Punster Productions, Inc.
