Re: stunnel

Viktor Dukhovni via Exim-users <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 10:23:20PM -0500, Martin McCormick via Exim-users wrote:
> Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-users <[email protected]> writes:
> > I've never tried this and I may very well be wrong, but I think
> > you need stunnel to listen to exim on a port of your choice
> > Does the smart server provide submissions on 465 ?
> 
> Definitely not.  I have tried 465, 587 and even 25 by accident
> when I ran dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.  465 and 25 are not
> even open on the smarthost.
> Port 587 is alive and the server talks to you and that's
> the only port number one needs to talk to that smarthost.

In that case you'll need "protocol = smtp" in the stunnel config
for the connection.

-- 
    Viktor.

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