[Pkg-exim4-users] smtps support in Stretch

[Gary Dale]

On 12/04/16 05:44 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 12/04/16 04:25 PM, Marc Haber wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 04:05:59PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
>>> Don't have any logs of it working. The oldest one still around just
>>> shows frozen messages. I mainly use this for some system messages, not
>>> daily use. However I can send messages through the same remote server
>>> using Icedove.
>> Try exim -qf to force delivery and show more logs. Recommended reading
>> also spec.txt, the chapter titled "how exim delivers mail", and/or
>> README.Debian.gz, Chapter 2.2.1, titled "Exim 4 as TLS/SSL client",
>> saying "TLS on connect is not natively supported." As long as upstream
>> doesn't change this, the Debian package is unlikely to change as well.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Marc
>>
> Remembered I had a Jessie server running exim4. While it's got a lot of
> frozen messages in the queue, it seems to be working so I looked at the
> differences and modified update-exim4.conf.conf to fit. There were three
> differences. Here are the lines after I changed them and successfully
> sent a test e-mail:
>
> dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
> dc_other_hostnames='transponder.rahim-dale; transponder'
> dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1; ::0'
>
> I don't think the first line was important and I'm not sure what the ;
> ::0 does in the third line. Possibly it's the dc_other_hostnames that
> did the trick?
>
>
Spoke too soon. After one successful message, all subsequent messages
seem to be stuck in the queue. They aren't frozen (yet). I can still
send mail through Jessie (same local network, same sender account, same
remote server) but now the  messages aren't going through on my Stretch box.