Re: [exim] SSL Anomoly? or config error?

Hill Ruyter wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a strange situation with regards to SSL on my server
>
> It is probably a configuration issue but I cannot see where
>
>
> If I send e-mail (using outlook express) from a machine on the same subnet
> as the server
> I get an error telling me that SSL is not supported and I have had to
> configure the two clients without SSL for SMTP
>
> However I have just checked remotely and from a client elsewhere on the net
> I can successfully send e-mail with SSH configured for SMTP

Is the remote client also using Outlook Express, or a different MUA?
Outlook Express (at least in prior versions) can only do SSL via an
SMTPS port, the default being 465. To get Exim to listen on 465 for
SMTPS in addition to the normal port 25 you would need configuration
lines like:

daemon_smtp_ports = 25 : 465
tls_on_connect_ports = 465

Local vs. non-local shouldn't make any difference here, so I'm guessing
that the remote client wasn't OE, but something more "sane" that can
understand the more modern STARTTLS method of doing secured SMTP.

Regards,
Tim Wilde