On Saturday, February 15, 2003 5:24 PM [GMT+0530=IST],
Dr Andrew C Aitchison <A.C.Aitchison@???> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
>> At 05:58 PM 2/14/2003 -0800, Mark Edwards wrote:
>>> I have just enabled TLS in Exim on a machine that listens on port
>>> 26 in addition to port 25 (for the purposes of getting around
>>> routing issues with a dialup ISP). TLS works great on port 25, but
>>> an SSL connection on port 26 is unsuccessful and nothing is logged.
>>
>> May I suggest the MSA port 587 for this purpose? There's an RFC
>> and all, and 587 is a "well known port" for submission of mail.
>
> Why not 465 smtps/ssmtp ?
That isn't TLS - a bit different (ssl, alternate port as it is called).
At least one mail client has an issue or two with this IIRC, last I
checked.
srs
