[Pkg-exim4-users] smtps support in Stretch

[Gary Dale]

On 12/04/16 06:08 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> 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.
>
Figured out why only some messages are getting through. Messages that go
to another primus.ca account are working but not ones that go to a
different domain. Any ideas on how to correct that?