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

[Anand Kumria]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:41:39PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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.)

No doubt later versions of specific clients do fix the problem - I don't
have money to spend to upgrade them however. That is probably the reason
it hasn't died out yet. Maybe when some Free Software clients on Win32
match Outlook I can switch my staff over.

> > 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:

Thanks for the info. I'm presuming that that feature won't be available in 
time for Debian 3.1, so it'd be good if you can leave this bug report
open in case anyone else needs to implement the same.

Thanks,
Anand

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