[Pkg-exim4-users] Support for tls on connect on outgoing smtp connections?

[ael]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 08:51:58AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2014-12-23 ael <law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > The problem was that the name of the smarthost was aliased, so it did
> > not match the entry in /etc/exim4/passswd.client.
> 
> > but that is what I have done for the moment. I now realise that I have
> > met this problem before with another smarthost, so it seems to be a
> > common situation.
> 
> It is. See <https://bugs.debian.org/244724>
> 

Thanks for pointing me at that bug. I had started on that path
independently, so very useful. I guess that it is unlikely that I will
come up with anything better given how long it has been there and the
number of people involved. If by any chance, I find anything useful,
I will report it there.

I too (obviously) had missed the alert in the exim4_passwd_client man
page. And as others have said, this sort of problem is not the first
thing that comes to mind when trying to get a new smarthost to work, even
when I had see it before.

Thanks for the reply.

ael