Re: [exim] SSL SMTP

On Do, 2004-12-02 at 22:51 +0000, Chris Edwards wrote:
> Would it be theoretically feasible to engineer this and somehow autosense
> whether the client is doing tls-on-connect, and if not, provide a regular
> SMTP session where ACLs force STARTTLS ?

Not within exim. The TLS layer would have to recognise that the client
is sending a HELO or EHLO string, and forward that to the upper layer.
OpenSSL does something similar with HTTP by then signaling an error
condition that basically says: someone tried unencrypted HTTP.

johannes