Author: Torsten Luettgert Date: To: Simon Vallet CC: Exim Mailing List New-Topics: [Exim] dns resolution problem Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim as an SSL client without STARTTLS ?
On Mit, 2004-01-21 at 11:57, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:05:19 +0100
> Andreas Metzler <eximusers@???> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 06:54:58PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote:
> > > I know STARTTLS is the current standard, but is there a way to get
> > > an exim client directly starting an SSL negociation ?
> >
> > Exim itself cannot do that. However you could use stunnel or
> > a similar tool.
Yes it can.
Start your daemon with the additional options -oX 465 -tls-on-connect
and exim will listen on port 465 (SMTPS) and use ssl immediately
upon connection.
