Re: [exim] Port 465/587 revisited

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Author: Barry Pederson
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To: tanner
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Port 465/587 revisited
Fred Viles wrote:
> 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).



You also have to *listen* to port 465, in addition to specifying that you want
TLS-on-connect with it - so you need two things in your config to get port 465
and 25 working at the same time with a single daemon:

    daemon_smtp_port = 25:465
    tls_on_connect_ports = 465


    Barry