Re: [Exim] TLS Issue

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John P Connor
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] TLS Issue
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, John P Connor wrote:

> Yes, I think you're correct. Looking more closely at the Exchange log, we
> see:
>
> EHLO erniepdc.ernie.mshome
> 250 oldfield Hello exc [10.10.10.1]
> STARTTLS
> 220 TLS go ahead
> MAIL FROM:<Administrator@???> SIZE=593,
>
> .. and then we get the error I described. So Exim is in SMTP mode but
> Exchange is still in ESMTP mode.


Sigh.

> Trust Microsoft not to follow RFCs. I am no Exchange admin (I avoid Windows
> as much as I can), but afaik there is no way to circumvent this behaviour.
> If I turn ESMTP off, I don't get the option to use TLS anyway. I wonder if
> anyone else has experience with this? Do you think we need a new Exim option
> to work round this?


Sigh.

I wait to see if anybody else responds to this...

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