Re: [Exim] Exim behaviour on 4xx response to STARTTLS.

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Author: Marc MERLIN
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To: David Woodhouse
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim behaviour on 4xx response to STARTTLS.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:31:24PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> If Exim receives a 5xx permanent failure response, or if the server
> responds agreeably but something goes wrong with the TLS setup, Exim
> will go ahead and deliver in the clear as if TLS capability had not been
> advertised -- unless explicitly configured not to send cleartext to the host
> in question.


Interesting.

I was looking at enhancing SMTP callbacks to try a STARTTLS if it was
advertized, and refuse remote mail until the sending server fixes their TLS
setup.

Marc
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