Thanks to all for the responses... At this point I think I will try a
build of 4.80 to get it working (from source) and look into a wheezy
update later.
Next task will be to learn the non-Debian configuration syntax of exim4
(sometimes that dpkg-reconfigure comes in quite handy....)
edward
On 06/10/2013 03:04 AM, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2013-06-08 at 11:16 -0400, eelboy wrote:
>> I have a stock Debian (6) with Exim4 (4.71) which I use as a smarthost
>> to my ISP (verizon). They are switching to SSL on port 465 and I am
>> having a hard time getting exim4 to cooperate. (previously they were
>> using STARTTLS on port 587 which worked just fine)
> You need at least Exim 4.77 to be able to set "protocol = smtps" on the
> Transport used.
>
> If switching to Wheezy isn't a solution, then you're likely looking at
> adding a patch into your deb build. There are no guarantees that it
> will apply cleanly.
>
> http://bugs.exim.org/97
> http://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff/061b7ebd7d69db7674f03025d552fa0bedd0fef8
>
> -Phil
