Re: [exim] the great TLS mystery

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 05:57, WJCarpenter <bill-exim@???> wrote:
>
> Port 8111 is for people who need to escape firewalls.  My user's telnet was
> to port 587.  I've tried all of 25, 8111, and 587 with equivalent results
> (different from his results).  I've asked my user to try port 8111 but don't
> have those results yet.  One of my hypotheses is that his ISP is
> transparently proxying SMTP and injecting the AUTH advertisement into the
> EHLO response (for reasons unknown, but clearly looney if true).  If that's
> so, they may be watching ports 25 and 587, but they will be unlikely to be
> watching port 8111 (for SMTP anyhow).

This is a long shot, but is it possible that his TELNET client is
handling TLS automagically?
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Jan