On 23 Feb 2005 at 15:44, Bob Tanner wrote about
"[exim] Port 465/587 revisited":
| http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20040426/070559.html
|
| To support legacy MUAs that do not do STARTTLS correctly is the above url
| still the recommended solution?
Not quite.
| Quoted before for people not wanting to hit the url:
|
| On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
| >
| > Run an additional daemon with
| > exim -tls-on-connect -oX 587 -bd
|
| You should use port 465 (the unofficial smtps port) for this. The standard
| message submission port should not use -tls-on-connect.
Since 4.43, it is not necessary to run an additional daemon. You can
use
tls_on_connect_ports = 465
to specify smtps on port 465 (only).
- Fred
