Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 15/03/15 05:32 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Gary Dale wrote on 03/15/2015 04:26:
> <snip>
> > I can telnet to both 26 and 465. I get three 220 lines when I connect to port
> > 26, including the ESMTP line, but not when I use port 465. When I connect to
> > port 465, I get kicked out if I enter the EHLO or a USER command, etc..
> Also on the smtps server my exim4 connects to on port 465, a telnet connection
> gets immediately kicked out.
>
> What output appears now in the log file? If I remove the "protocol = smtps"
> line, something ending in
>
> "... closed connection in response to initial connection"
>
> is logged when trying to deliver a mail.
>
> To make sure, after changing the configuration files of exim4 you issued the
> commands
>
>    update-exim4.conf
>
> and something like
>
>    service exim4 restart
>
> ?
I get the closed connection message on screen when I'm kicked out from 
the 465 port. I don't see anything in the logs I've looked at.

And yes, I am doing the update and restart when I change the configuration.