Re: [exim] Re: ssmtp with exim as a client

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Author: Marc Haber
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Subject: Re: [exim] Re: ssmtp with exim as a client
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:59:32 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
>> >> Can exim be configured to allow ssmtp when operating as a client?
>> >
>> >Not unless you use something like stunnel to actually handle the
>> >SSL-stuff.
>>
>> Yuck. That's a missing feature.
>
>ssmtp is a legacy protocol (and has been for some time). I see no reason
>to implement it when Exim is a client.


There are broken networks that are not going to be fixed, and ssmtp is
the only way to get a message sent from that network.

Greetings
Marc

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