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

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-09-01 Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 10:41:39PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> On 2004-08-15 Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org> wrote:
[...]
>> 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.
[...]

This was not intended as "Leave me alone, upgrade your broken clients"
but as "At least ther is a little hope for the future."

[...]
>> 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,

Yes, correct. At the time this bug was submitted exim was already
frozen.

> so it'd be good if you can leave this bug report
> open in case anyone else needs to implement the same.

Ok.
               cu andreas
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