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Re: [LUG] Securing Exim4

 

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?

> 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

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