Re: [exim] Secure authentication and tls_on_connect

On 4 Jan 2006, at 05:08, Mark Edwards wrote:

> Getting back to this thread...
>
> Nobody has really understood my question, I think. I do have a tls
> on connect server on port 465. It works great, as long as the OE
> Mac client is set to port 465. However, in the default setting, if
> you simply choose "This server requires secure authentication" OE
> Mac seems to do its normal routine of checking on 25 to see if
> LOGIN authentication is offered, and then switches to 465 to do tls
> on connect. If I don't have LOGIN offered on 25, OE Mac fails
> outright. I don't want to offer LOGIN on 25 without encryption.
> OE Mac doesn't support STARTTLS.
>
> Do you see the problem? If I don't offer LOGIN on 25 without
> encryption, OE Mac will not work, unless it is specifically set to
> use 465. At this point, I think I'm stuck. I'd rather not offer
> unencrypted authentication than pander to OE Mac clients, so I'm
> just going to require OE Mac clients to specify 465.
>
> That is, unless anyone has any way around this catch-22.

don't you have a solution in setting OE Mac to use port 465? So you
do not have a catch-22 here, that is, unless you are referring to
ssh, ha ha ha! sorry.
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