Bug#946806: exim4-base: Smarthost with SMTPS (to port 465) is missing - requires recompilation

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2019-12-16 Karl Schmidt <karl at xtronics.com> wrote:
> Package: exim4-base
> Version: 4.92-8+deb10u3
> Severity: normal


> The use of SMTPS is rather standard these days - (thunderbird, k9
> outlook etc.. ) all support this.

> Without openSSL one can't have a smart-host transport with: driver =  smtps

Hello,

>From where did you get that idea? I cannot find any reference in the
specification about "protocol = smtps" being openssl-only.

> A breadcrum for others: According to exim.org docs one must recompile
> and change USE_OPENSSL=yes in Local/Makefile to USE_GNUTLS=yes

> It could be there needs to be two packages - exim4-gnutl and exim4-openssl

> At the very least the README.Debian should start out with which
> version it is.
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What info are you missing?

ametzler at argenau:~$ dpkg -s exim4-daemon-light
Package: exim4-daemon-light
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 and includes support for TLS encryption 
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file:///usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.html#TLS
 Both exim4-daemon-heavy and exim4-daemon-light support TLS/SSL using the GnuTLS library and STARTTLS.

cu Andreas