Re: Exim4 with zoho

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Mon 16 Jun 2014 at 13:07:09 +0800, 斟酌鵬兄 wrote:

> This is the follow up output of swaks with positive feedback:
> root@Astroweb:/etc/exim4# swaks --auth --to <hidden> --server
> smtp.zoho.com --protocol SMTPS
> Username: <hidden>
> Password:
> === Trying smtp.zoho.com:465...
> === Connected to smtp.zoho.com.
> === TLS started w/ cipher AES128-SHA
> === TLS peer subject DN="/C=IN/ST=Tamilnadu/L=Chennai/O=ZOHO
> Corporation/CN=*.zoho.com"
> <~  220 mx.zohomail.com SMTP Server ready June 15, 2014 10:02:34 PM PDT
>  ~> HELO Astroweb.astroweb
> <~  250 mx.zohomail.com Hello Astroweb.astroweb <hidden>
> *** Host did not advertise authentication
>  ~> QUIT
> <~  221 mx.zohomail.com closing connection
> === Connection closed with remote host.


   brian@desktop:~$ nmap -Pn smtp.zoho.com
   Starting Nmap 6.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-06-16 07:53 BST
   Nmap scan report for smtp.zoho.com (74.201.154.90)
   Host is up (0.20s latency).
   Not shown: 997 filtered ports
   PORT    STATE  SERVICE
   113/tcp closed ident
   465/tcp open   smtps
   587/tcp open   submission
   Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 21.84 seconds


   brian@desktop:~$ telnet smtp.zoho.com 465
   Trying 74.201.154.90...
   Connected to smtp.zoho.com.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   HELO gmail.com
   Connection closed by foreign host.


   brian@desktop:~$ telnet smtp.zoho.com 587
   Trying 74.201.154.90...
   Connected to smtp.zoho.com.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   220 mx.zohomail.com SMTP Server ready June 16, 2014 12:11:51 AM PDT
   EHLO gmail.com
   250-mx.zohomail.com Hello gmail.com (copernicus.demon.co.uk (80.177.21.246))
   250-STARTTLS
   250 SIZE 25000000


> > Also in exim4 config:
> > I had  protocol = smtps set under
> > "transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost"

I'd revert this and any other changes made to the files in conf.d and
use smtp.zoho.com::587 as the smarthost. Read the exim4-config_files
manual and complete /etc/exim4/passwd.client.