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

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-08-15 Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Version: 4.34-4
[...]
> 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.

Hello,
More recent versions of Outlook do TLS afair on exim-users. (They still
insist on ssmtp for any port != 25, though.)

> 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 for the patch. I currently do not intend to apply it, though,
because it might be soon unnecessary. - Phil seems to have given in to
the continueing persistence of broken clients, he has added the wish
for offering -tls-on-connect in the configuration file, without the
need for running two daemons:
http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20040830/037728.html
| Wishlisted.

| When I implemented -tls-on-connect for Exim 4.03, I thought I was
| supporting a few legacy clients that would soon die out. Mistake. Sigh.
             cu andreas
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