Re: [exim] SMTPS problem

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Author: Feifei Jia
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To: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [exim] SMTPS problem
Marc Sherman <msherman@???> wrote:
>Feifei Jia wrote:
>>
>> For some reasons, I had to use exim 4.34 (in Debian) and had to let the
>> client negotiate a TLS session to ssmtp port (465).
>>
>> And I did follow the instructions from
>> http://exim.cbn.net.id/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/FAQ_17.html, but when I
>tried
>> to run "exim4 -bd -oX '[0.0.0.0]::465' -tls-on-connect" in the command
>line,
>> "Malformed IP address "465" in -oX data" showed up.
>>
>> Did I miss something? Any hints appreciated.
>
>That looks to me like it should be correct, but the [] construct might
>be getting munged by your shell. Try "-oX 0.0.0.0.465" instead.
>
>If you upgrade to a more current exim (which is available in the current
>stable Debian distro), you can use "tls_on_connect_ports = 465" in the
>config file, instead.
>
>- Marc
>

Sorry for the typos in Subject :)

Yeah, it works. I'd like to change the startup script of exim4
(/etc/init.d/exim4), but I cannot quite understand the "start_exim" function
in the script. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks a lot.