Bug#265818: exim4: enable ssmtp (port 465) support; useful for Outlook 2000

Anand Kumria Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>, 265818@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:51:16 +1000


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Package: exim4
Version: 4.34-4
Severity: normal

Hi there,

I just setup exim4 and decided to spend some time getting submission 
working from Outlook 2000.  Unfortunately it appears Outlook 2000 does 
not support/understand STARTTLS.  It wants SSL to start immediately.

Fortunately the Exim maintainers knew about this and have included 
specific functionality to support these broken clients. Attached are 
patches to /etc/default/exim4 and /etc/init.d/exim4 which should make it 
simple for site that have these clients to enable this.

To note is that this support only works if Exim is set to 'separate' 
mode for the listener and queuerunner. Hopefully you can incorporate 
this in future versions you upload.

Thanks,
Anand

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.34 #1 built 27-Jul-2004 18:06:50
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (May 26, 2004)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  exim4-base                    4.34-4     EXperimental Internal Mailer -- a 
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.34-4     Lightweight version of the Exim (v

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