On 2004-04-27 Andrey Tverdokhleb <atverd@???> wrote:
> I have two questions.
> 1. What is the reason for not accepting STARTTLS as the very first
> command in a session?
> Exim 3.x allowed this, but 4.x doesn't and looking at the source
> code it seems like very intentional check.
I assume because it is the right thing to do, a client that tries to
use a SMTP service extension without checking whether the server
offers it seems to be broken.
> I don't mind, but it brakes option -starttls smtp in openssl 0.9.7
> which I used to verify smtp over TLS with 3.x.
> F.e. this command works fine for exim 3.x, but doesn't for 4.32.
> openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect
> 10.10.10.233:25
[...]
There are alternatives to that.
gnutls-cli -p 25 -s 10.10.10.233
or designed for mail:
swaks -q helo -tls -s 10.10.10.233
http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/#swaks
cu andreas
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