Re: [exim] Sending with SSL

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Author: Norman Walsh
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Sending with SSL
/ Tony Finch <dot@???> was heard to say:
| On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Norman Walsh wrote:

|>
|> Now I've been moved to a new mail server and told that I must connect
|> with SSL. Instructions were provided for changing clients like
|> Thunderbird and Mozilla, but I haven't been able to deduce from these
|> instructions what I need to change in my exim4 configuration.

|
| http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec_38.html#SECT38.8


Thanks. This suggests that exim4 will attempt TLS if it is advertised
by the server. And indeed, it appears to attempt TLS, but fails.
I humbly request additional clues :-(

# exim4 -v -M 1EUQnW-0004rE-Hd
delivering 1EUQnW-0004rE-Hd
LOG: MAIN
Unfrozen by forced delivery
R: smarthost for norman.walsh@???
T: remote_smtp_smarthost for norman.walsh@???
Connecting to mail-amer.myemployer.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]:25 ... connected
SMTP<< 220 fe-amer-09.myemployer.com -- Server ESMTP (...)
SMTP>> EHLO hephaistos.nwalsh.com

  SMTP<< 250-fe-amer-09.myemployer.com
         250-8BITMIME
         250-PIPELINING
         250-DSN
         250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
         250-EXPN
         250-HELP
         250-XADR
         250-XSTA
         250-XCIR
         250-XGEN
         250-XLOOP E9578E876D265A54712D0DDDE4D7F150
         250-STARTTLS
         250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
         250-AUTH=LOGIN
         250-ETRN
         250 SIZE 0

SMTP>> STARTTLS

SMTP<< 220 2.5.0 Go ahead with TLS negotiation.
SMTP>> EHLO hephaistos.nwalsh.com

  SMTP<< 250-fe-amer-09.myemployer.com
         250-8BITMIME
         250-PIPELINING
         250-DSN
         250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
         250-EXPN
         250-HELP
         250-XADR
         250-XSTA
         250-XCIR
         250-XGEN
         250-XLOOP E9578E876D265A54712D0DDDE4D7F150
         250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
         250-AUTH=LOGIN
         250-ETRN
         250 SIZE 0

SMTP>> AUTH LOGIN

SMTP<< 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
SMTP>> *

SMTP<< 501 5.7.0 AUTH operation aborted by client.
SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=3442
SMTP>> RCPT TO:<Norman.Walsh@???>
SMTP>> DATA

SMTP<< 530 5.7.0 No AUTH command has been given.
SMTP<< 503 5.5.0 No MAIL FROM command has been issued.
SMTP<< 503 5.5.0 No MAIL FROM command has been issued.
SMTP>> QUIT


                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm


-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@???> | He would like to start from scratch.
http://nwalsh.com/            | Where is scratch?--Elias Canetti