Bug#316441: exim4-base: tls_on_connect_ports config field does not accept the service name rather than port.

[Marc Haber]

tags #316441 upstream
forwarded #316441 http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72
reassign #316441 exim4-daemon-light,exim4-daemon-heavy
thanks

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:40:58AM +0400, Alexander Myodov wrote:
> The field tls_on_connect_ports in the configs accepts only port number, and not the service name.
> I.e., the line "tls_on_connect_ports = 465" is correct, while the line "tls_on_connect_ports = ssmtp" or "tls_on_connect_ports = smtps" causes Exim to generate the log lines like
> 
>   2005-07-01 02:15:26 tls_on_connect_ports contains "ssmtp", which is not a port number: exim abandoned
>   2005-07-01 02:18:35 tls_on_connect_ports contains "smtps", which is not a port number: exim abandoned
> 
> Documents indeed do not describe that this field should accept the service name, though it is strange, as this field is very close by its meaning to daemon_smtp_ports which allows the settings like "daemon_smtp_ports = smtp : ssmtp".

I have forwarded this upstream, thanks for spotting.

Greetings
Marc

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