Re: [exim] tls-on-connect with cyrus_sasl

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Mark Edwards
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] tls-on-connect with cyrus_sasl
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Mark Edwards wrote:

> Before the change, when an old tls-on-connect client (Outlook
> Express Mac) tried to authenticate on port 25, exim appeared to redirect the
> client to use the server on port 465 and the authentication would go through
> there.


No, that isn't how it works. SMTP has no mechanism for redirecting
clients.

> Now, using the cyrus_sasl authentication, an attempt to connect on port
> 25 just fails, and I have to manually configure the client to use port
> 465 to make things work.


You must have broken something else in your configuration. Is Exim running
on port 25 from inetd? Or was it running as a listening daemon? In the
latter case it's likely that you haven't restarted the daemon properly.
You should run all you listening processes in the same way, to avoid
confusion.

This problem has nothing to do with cyrus_sasl.

Tony.
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