Re: configuring exim4 smtp to use SSL

[James <bjlockie@lockie.ca>]

On 03/15/2015 08:04 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
> 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.
You can't telnet to an ssl port.
Use:
openssl s_client -connect [IP]:smtps