On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:43:42PM +0100, Torsten Luettgert wrote:
> 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.
No, you have misparsed the question. Simon did not want an exim-daemon
listening with -tls-on-connect but he wanted exim act as a *client* and
*deliver* to a server that only spoke SMTPS but not TLS. As there is
no tls-on-connect option for the smtp transport exim *cannot* do that.
cu andreas
