Re: [Exim] SMTP protocol violation and -oX

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Author: Dennis Davis
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP protocol violation and -oX
>From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
>Reply-To: exim-users@???
>To: Oliver Egginger <Oliver.Egginger@???>
>cc: exim-users@???
>Subject: Re: [Exim] SMTP protocol violation and -oX
>Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:09:36 +0000 (GMT)


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>465 is, IIRC, the "ssmtp" port, where the client starts up
>a TLS session without sending STARTTLS first. Exim doesn't
>have any special knowledge about port numbers. You need to set
>-tls-on-connect to get it to behave this way. However, that is an
>all-or-nothing switch. You cannot set it for some ports and not
>others. Therefore, if you want to support both kinds of connection,
>you need to run two differently configured daemons.


Note you can get away with one configuration file for both daemons.
Matt Bernstein posted a recipe for this some time ago. Look in the
mailing list archives for:

From: Matt Bernstein <mb@???>
To: exim-users@???
Subject: SSL/TLS recipe (was Re: [Exim] TLS on a port other than 25)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0302161422370.786@???>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 14:34:19 +0000 (GMT)