"James Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to encrypt the smtp connection between my clients and my server > and potentially between mail servers. I have the LDAP patch compiled in > as well as the SMTP AUTH patch. All is functioning correctly. I have > made the changes to the Makefile to enable TLS and when I telnet to my > smtp port and ehlo it I see STARTTLS. I have also created my cert and it > is in my control directory. But when I try to connect from my client to > my server using a secure connection it errors. It seems to be looking > for port 465 that is not available. What am I missing or am I not > understanding this?
Your client is using "smtps", which runs on port 465, instead of standard SMTP with the STARTTLS extension. This is an older, but still perfectly secure, way of doing an encrypted SMTP connection. See if you have a configuration option to control this, or can upgrade your client. Otherwise, use something like stunnel to set up an SSL-enabled SMTP server on port 465. Good luck, ----ScottG.
