Package:exim4-base Version:4.60-3 My ISP started requiring TLS authentication so I checked the exim document supplied by Debian: README.Debian.gz. It reads:
2.2. Using TLS 2.2.1. Exim 4 as TLS/SSL client Both exim4-daemon-heavy and exim4-daemon-light support TLS/SSL using the GnuTLS library and STARTTLS. Exim will use TLS via STARTTLS automatically as client if the server exim connects to offers it. TLS on connect is not natively supported. You can stop reading now if you are not setting up a mailserver which needs to offer TLS for incoming connections. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since I was going to use TLS as a client, it looks like I have nothing to do. So I did nothing and found that my outgoing email was rejected by my ISP and became frozen. After many hours of checking and debugging I found that I needed to fill in the file /etc/exim4/passwd.client. Then all was OK. But it does mention this in the README doc: 2.3. SMTP-AUTH 2.3.1. Using exim as SMTP-AUTH client If you want to set up exim as SMTP AUTH client for delivery to your internet access provider's smarthost put the name of the server, your login and password in /etc/exim4/passwd.client. That file also contains verbose information about the required format. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Perhaps this isn't part of TLS, but prior to my ISP requiring TLS, my email worked fine with nothing in this file (except comments starting with #). I had no idea that I needed this file Someone else on the Internet seems to have had similar problems. He (like me) read that you don't need to do anything to get TLS if you're a client. But apparently, the changes resulted in passwd.client being required. So the doc might reference the section about passwd.client prior to telling readers to stop reading. Or better, exim could produce an error message in the logs saying it found nothing (or incorrect info) in passwd.client. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
