Author: Bill Hacker Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] smarthost relay problems
Marc Sherman wrote:
> Rob Brenart wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks for the advice... it is a debian list, so I've asked on the
>> exim4 debian user's list and we'll see if I get any hits... in case it
>> matters though, I tried your command and received the following... but
>> no message delivered. However, I think I see the problem, :25... I'm
>> pretty sure I need to be coming in over 465 with SSL... trying to find
>> in the docs how to set this now
>
>
> Exim does not support tls-on-connect (port 465) as a client. You'll
> have to use stunnel or something.
>
> - Marc
AFAIK Exim supports tls_on_connect on any port you specify. RTFM.
In addition to a menagerie of non-standard ports, I was even trialing it
on port 80 a few days ago.
Gets around firewalls quite nicely, but throws some weird log entries
when search-bots try to crawl a non-existent webpage...
