On 20 Nov 2010, at 19:38, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Always Learning <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Sat, 2010-11-20 at 15:44 +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >> >>> I've followed the instructions for getting set up so I can use my >>> exim4 (4.69 on Debian) server to send mail from my Gmail account, but >>> when I try to connect from google I get >>> >>> 2010-11-20 15:19:19 [15973] SMTP connection from [209.85.215.44]:39470 >>> I=[64.15.147.59]:25 (TCP/IP connection count = 1) >>> 2010-11-20 15:19:20 [16070] SMTP syntax error in >>> "\200(\001\003\001?\017???\020??\004\001?\200??\005??" >>> ................... >> >> Have you changed a setting in Gmail to forward encrypted mail to your >> Exim ? > > Thank you, unticking the 'Use SSL' box fixed the problem, but I > thought that was the whole point of configuring exim with TLS enabled, > that it _would_ work with SSL. >
Yes, ticking that box seems to make gmail use SSL on connect rather than starting a smtp session and then issuing a STARTTLS command which is what exim is expecting. > Still confused, but at least it's working, thanks again, > > ht > -- It's easy to configure exim to do SSL on connect, the usual port for it is 465, but it is only by convention rather than by a standard. STARTTLS on port 587 (submission port) is of course preferred where possible. Bryn -- Or words to that effect. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
