[Pkg-exim4-users] STARTTLS not being advertised

[Donald Thompson]

> On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 09:59:03PM -0600, Donald Thompson wrote:
>> I have the exim4-daemon-heavy package (and actually its the same problem
>> with exim4-daemon-light) installed from sarge. I'm having a terrible
>> time trying to get it to advertise STARTTLS on connect.
>>
>> When I send email out from this server, it successfully sends email
>> using TLS to TLS enabled servers. I have generated a certificate using
>> the exim-gencert script. In my update-exim4.conf.conf file I have the
>> variable MAIN_TLS_ENABLE set to true. If I understand my
>> exim4.conf.template correctly, thats all I should need to do.
>> When I look through my config.autogenerated file, indeed I have the line
>> 'tls_advertise_hosts = *'.
>
> This sounds strange, since tls_advertise_hosts is usually set via a
> macro:
> .ifdef MAIN_TLS_ENABLE
> .ifndef MAIN_TLS_ADVERTISE_HOSTS
> MAIN_TLS_ADVERTISE_HOSTS = *
> .endif
> tls_advertise_hosts = MAIN_TLS_ADVERTISE_HOSTS

Thats exactly how it looks in my config.autogenerated.

My config file is available at
http://dv1.dataventures.com/~dlt/config.autogenerated

> Can you please check whether MAIN_TLS_ENABLE is really set in
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated and whether
> MAIN_TLS_ADVERTISE_HOSTS may be set to some undesireable value?
>
> I suspect that you are using split config while editing the non-split
> config file.

When I run 'update-exim4.conf -v' it outputs:

using non-split configuration scheme from /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template

-Don

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