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Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again

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On Tue 29 May 2018 at 12:25:03 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote:
> 
> David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:
> > My previous post posed two posers. Port?
> 
> It is supposed to be port 465.  That's what the
> conf.autogenerated file showed it should be but it could be doing
> something contrary like port 25-- anything but the right one.

Perhaps my earlier attachment got lost, so here's the text:

--✁--------

Enter Outgoing Server Settings information and click Create.

    SMTP Server: smtp.suddenlink.net
    User Name: Your Suddenlink email address
    Password: The password for your Suddenlink email account
    Outgoing Mail Port: 25 or 587

--✃--------

> 	I have joined the exim-users mailing list as of a few
> hours ago and if I find anything useful, I will let the list,
> here, know as I suspect that something changed and the fix is
> non-intuitive but probably not difficult if one knows what to
> tweak.  The server at our internet service provider is fairly
> standards-based so we shouldn't have to boil the ocean to make it
> work again.

AIUI 587 is the standard email submission port and 465 is now
deprecated but often still in use. I think they differ in the
details of how they handle encrypting the session.

Cheers,
David.

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exim4 and TLS Once Again "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2018-05-28 22:40 +0200
  Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-29 03:10 +0200
    Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2018-05-29 04:30 +0200
      Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-29 19:10 +0200
        Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2018-05-29 19:30 +0200
          Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-31 01:30 +0200
            Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-05-31 03:00 +0200
              Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-06-01 14:00 +0200
                Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2018-06-03 23:10 +0200
        Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-06-01 18:20 +0200
          Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-06-02 17:10 +0200

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