[Pkg-exim4-users] using TLS/SSL with exim4 under debian

[Jeremiah Foster]

On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>
>> [..]
>
> "I am still having trouble" is quite unspecific. What works, what
> doesn't, how did you test, what does the logfile say?
>
> Does exim advertise TLS?
> ---------
> telnet insert.host.name.here 25
> ehlo foo
> quit
> ---------
> should contain:
> 250-STARTTLS

Yes it does contain 250-STARTTLS

root at devmodul:~# telnet devmodul.com 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to devmodul.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 devmodul.com ESMTP Exim 4.50 Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:02:50 +0200
EHLO foo
250-devmodul.com Hello localhost.johncompanies.com [127.0.0.1]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-PIPELINING
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP

> Does TLS work? Install swaks and libnet-ssleay-perl and run
> swaks -s insert.host.name.here -tls -q ehlo

Yes, TLS works;

root at devmodul:~# swaks -s devmodul.com -tls -q ehlo
=== Trying devmodul.com:25...
=== Connected to devmodul.com.
<-  220 devmodul.com ESMTP Exim 4.50 Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:08:13 +0200
  -> EHLO devmodul.com
<-  250-devmodul.com Hello localhost.johncompanies.com [127.0.0.1]
<-  250-SIZE 52428800
<-  250-PIPELINING
<-  250-STARTTLS
<-  250 HELP
  -> STARTTLS
<-  220 TLS go ahead
=== TLS started w/ cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
  ~> EHLO devmodul.com
<~  250-devmodul.com Hello localhost.johncompanies.com [127.0.0.1]
<~  250-SIZE 52428800
<~  250-PIPELINING
<~  250 HELP
  ~> QUIT
<~  221 devmodul.com closing connection



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