On 9 Dec 2001, Ben Lutgens wrote:
> after a little tinkering I was able to get my SMTP-AUTH-TLS completely
> working. Once getting exim rebuild with TLS support i had the problem
> testing it. Turns out that evolution can't do TLS the way exim handles
> it. Exim does the TLS buy spawning the daemon on port 25, then asking
> the client on connect if it can speak TLS. If so, STARTTLS happens and
> then AUTH over that as well as the data channel transactions.
>
> So what I ended up doing was running stunnel on port 465 to spawn an
> exim process inetd style like so.

*snip*

Other way of doing it is to set up a local mail server (non-daemon) that
uses your SSL mail server as a Smart Relay.. can be less of a hassle.  :)

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