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

[Karl Schmidt]

On 12/16/19 12:25 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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.

Thanks ..

Turns out I was following an incorrect example --

They had
driver = smtps

Should be

driver = smtp
  protocol = smtps







> 
>> 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.
> [...]
> 
> What info are you missing?
> 
> ametzler at argenau:~$ dpkg -s exim4-daemon-light
> Package: exim4-daemon-light
> [...]
>   and includes support for TLS encryption
> [...]
> 
> 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
> 


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