[Pkg-exim4-users] Need help to set up exim4 with SSL for?smarthost
Andreas Metzler
ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Mon Feb 8 18:26:52 UTC 2010
svante.signell at telia.com wrote:
> Från: svante.signell at telia.com
[...]
>> Have been googling around and not yet succeeded to set up exim4 client
>> to work towards my ISP, which requires SSL authentication to send
>> messages usint a smarthost. Have edited passwd.client and
>> configuration
>> files, but to no avail. Port 465 is used by the SMTP server. TLS does
>> not seem to be supported.
>> Anybody have links how to set up properly. I have already
>> read /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz and several other
>> links.
> Further info:
> I managed to send an email message interactively by using the
> following link
> http://qmail.jms1.net/test-auth.shtml
> The SSL method did work
> openssl s_client -crlf -connect 1.2.3.4:465
> but not the STARTTLS method:
> openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect 1.2.3.4:25
Helllo,
exim does not support outgoing SSL-SMTP, you need a crutch like
stunnel for that. Does the host perhaps offer SMTP with STARTTLS on
port 587?
cu andreas
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