Re: [exim] Should MX offer TLS ?

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Author: Renaud Allard
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To: Chris Edwards
CC: Exim Mailing List
Subject: Re: [exim] Should MX offer TLS ?


Chris Edwards wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Jan Srzednicki wrote:
>
> | There is "tls_tempfail_tryclear" setting, which will make Exim jump back
> | to non-encryption after STARTTLS returns 4xx or TLS/SSL negotiation
> | fails in some way. From my experience, it works just fine.
>
> Good point. That may help for (some) outbound situations.
>
> But you don't have the same control for inbound. Either you advertise
> STARTTLS on your MX, or you don't.
>


This setting defaults to true anyway, so exim does this by default.