On 23/03/15 08:29 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Gary Dale <garydale@???> writes:
>
>> On 22/03/15 02:06 PM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>>
>>> Please show us the section starting by "remote_smtp_smarthost:" in the
>>> file named by exim4 -bP configure_file.
>> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
>>
>> remote_smtp_smarthost:
>> debug_print = "T: remote_smtp_smarthost for $local_part@$domain"
>> driver = smtp
>> hosts_try_auth = <; ${if exists{CONFDIR/passwd.client} \
>> {\
>> ${lookup{$host}nwildlsearch{CONFDIR/passwd.client}{$host_address}}\
>> }\
>> {} \
>> }
>> .ifdef REMOTE_SMTP_SMARTHOST_HOSTS_AVOID_TLS
>> hosts_avoid_tls = REMOTE_SMTP_SMARTHOST_HOSTS_AVOID_TLS
>> .endif
>> .ifdef REMOTE_SMTP_HEADERS_REWRITE
>> headers_rewrite = REMOTE_SMTP_HEADERS_REWRITE
>> .endif
>> .ifdef REMOTE_SMTP_RETURN_PATH
>> return_path = REMOTE_SMTP_RETURN_PATH
>> .endif
>> .ifdef REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA
>> helo_data=REMOTE_SMTP_HELO_DATA
>> .endif
>> .ifdef TLS_DH_MIN_BITS
>> tls_dh_min_bits = TLS_DH_MIN_BITS
>> .endif
> That's the standard contents of the file, not mentioning protocol, so it
> stays at its default value: smtp. You have to set it to smtps, but not
> in this file. Either in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template (if you have
> exim4/use_split_config: false in the output of debconf-show exim4-config)
> or in /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost
> (if you use split config or you run update-exim4.conf.template).
>
>>>> exim -bP transports seems to hang. It's been several minutes and it's
>>>> not completed.
>>> That's unexpected. Try strace to find out what it's waiting for.
>> It actually never completed. I killed it the next day. However today
>> it seems to be completing. Here's the output:
>>
>> [...]
>> remote_smtp_smarthost transport:
>> [...]
>> protocol = smtp
> After the above change, this should turn into smtps. Which also makes
> the smarthost port specification (::465) reduntant.
Thanks. I did have the protocol line in
/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost.
Moving it to /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template seems to have done the trick.
