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James Fidell wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: > > >> I have read /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian and done what I >> think needed doing, and when I run nmap against my server, it now >> advertises SMTPS on :465, but I cannae get it to actually work (I >> think). I'm testing it by changing my Thunderbird settings (in a >> separate profile) and trying to send a message to a GMail account I have. >> > What do you mean by "advertises SMTPS on :465"? Just that exim has > bound the port and is listening? > Yes. So, I would presume that incoming traffic on :465 would be passed to whatever is marked as handling :465 traffic (Exim in this case? Or should it be SSL/TLS/other?) >> When using "SSL", I get the following unhelpful error message on >> Thunderbird: >> The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. >> >> When using "TLS", I get the more helpful error: >> Unable to connect to SMTP server "fileserver" via STARTTLS since it >> doesn't offer STARTTLS in EHLO response. >> > You have tls_advertise_hosts = * in your exim config and have set up the > key and certificate for exim? > > Is there any useful information in the exim logs? > > James I have: .ifndef MAIN_TLS_ADVERTISE_HOSTS MAIN_TLS_ADVERTISE_HOSTS = * tls_advertise_hosts = MAIN_TLS_ADVERTISE_HOSTS which is as good as, isn't it? I have exim.crt and exim.key in /etc/exim4, so I'm guessing I setup the key and cert. If I try Thunderbird with SSL, I get the following in my /var/log/exim4/main 2008-11-25 10:19:09 no IP address found for host gsewell-laptop.thymox\.dyndns\.org (during SMTP connection from [10.0.0.11]) 2008-11-25 10:19:09 TLS error on connection from [10.0.0.11] (no TLS server certificate is specified) And if I try TLS, I get: 2008-11-25 10:21:23 no IP address found for host gsewell-laptop.thymox\.dyndns\.org (during SMTP connection from [10.0.0.11]) Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html