Re: [Exim] TLS on a port other than 25

At 14:16 -0800 2003/02/15, Mark Edwards wrote:
>on 2/15/03 1:37 PM, Giuliano Gavazzi at eximlists@??? wrote:
[..]
> > It is making it to exim (how would it not?), only that you will not
>> see it in a normal log. It seem that "most" clients (I am basing this
>> on 1 (one) client... and all the failures reported) will consider
>> ports either than 25 for SSL, that is tls-on-connect. A tcpdump shows
>> garbage thrown at poor exim, and the connection lost as the SSL
>> session fails to establish. [test done on port 26 with Mail.app on
>> MacOSX]
>>
>> Giuliano
>
>Mail.app is one of the clients I'm using to test, coincidentally. I'm not
>quite sure what you're saying. You mean that Mail.app is just screwing up
>the connection because it expects SSL to be done only with port 25?
>Basically, a bug in Mail.app? Strangely, it doesn't work with Outlook
>Express either, which uses ssmtp.

sorry, my sentence was too rococo. No, Mail.app (if set up to use SSL
and port 26) attempts a straight SSL connection to port 26 (I think
this is ssmtp, isn't it?). If the port is left on 25, it will instead
use STARTTLS.

Giuliano