I had the same problem with one exim installation.
the trouble was a mistake in tls_certificate file path specification
Corretting to right has solved.
- Andrea
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:05:13PM -0500, Michael Johnson wrote:
> On 24 Feb, 2005, at 11:36:53. 0 AM, Jakob Hirsch wrote:
>
> >Michael Johnson wrote:
> >
> >>In trying to implement this, I've run into a complication. I can't
> >>send mail using this method. I don't get a greeting message/banner
> >>and it doesn't seem to be able to authenticate me.
> >
> >Does your mail client support SSL (without STARTTLS)? Because that's
> >what the smtps port is for, just like https, pop3s, imaps ...
> >Some clients only support TLS (start with plain smtp, then do
> >STARTTLS). In this case you should use port 587 (submission).
>
> I'm not certain. I'll look to see if Apple's Mail.app supports it.
>
> >>[smudette:~] michael% telnet mail 465
> >>Trying 69.17.37.194...
> >>Connected to smudo.emjay.net.
> >>Escape character is '^]'.
> >>That's it...even after a minute of waiting. Nothing after the
> >>initial connection. No greeting message/banner.
> >
> >openssl s_client -connect mail:465
>
> [smudo:/usr/exim] root# openssl s_client -connect mail:465
> CONNECTED(00000003)
> 27146:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert
> handshake failure:s23_clnt.c:470:
>
> Given the "error" entry in the second position, I'm guessing this
> doesn't work. How would I enable smtps?
>
> -Michael
>
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