On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, James P. Roberts wrote:
> I ran into a similar problem. It has to do with the fact that in M$
> Outlook Express (and probably other M$ mail clients), when you check the
> box to use encrypted connections, it ONLY uses TLS on port 25, but
> instead switches to using SMTPS if you use any other port. (Talk about
> an undocumented "feature"... geeez).
Aarrgghh!! That sounds like it. Hells Bells...
> I await the day that Exim can be asked to listen for different
> encryption protocols on different ports. Perhaps it already can; I
> simply haven't looked at changing my process, because it is currently
> working. ("If it ain't broke...")
No it doesn't, and it is unlikely to, since the only standard protocol
for email is ESMTP, which uses the STARTTLS mechanism to initiate
encryption.
The only facility is -tls-on-connect, for legacy clients that use smtps.
The recommendation is to use inetd to handle this "second version of
Exim", which of course doesn't actually have to be a second version.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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