#19 SMTP over SSL does not perform AUTH login

[George]

What parameters should be used for SMTP over SSL? When SSL is establiahed immediately upon connecting to SMTP server, emailrelay still attempts to STARTTLS and receives 220 Ready to start TLS. It does not continue to perform AUTH LOGIN, but declares no message to send. Please see attached log.

Emailrelay-start.bat
start "emailrelay" C:\Email-Relay\emailrelay.exe --client-auth C:\Email-Relay\emailrelay.auth --client-tls-connection --close-stderr --forward-to mailroot3.namespro.ca:465 --log --pid-file "C:\Email-Relay\emailrelay.pid" --poll 0 --remote-clients --spool-dir C:\Email-Relay\spool --syslog --log-time --log-file=C:\Email-Relay\log\namespro-%%d.txt --domain mydomain.ca --verbose

[Károly Arnhoffer]

Dear Graeme,

I am also interested in whether it is possible (and if yes, then how) to configure E-MailRelay for SMTP over SSL/TLS on the inbound SMTP interface.

Regards,
Karoly

[Graeme Walker]

That's a very strange log; I hope you got it sorted out.

There is no support for SMTP-over-TLS for inbound connections, but you should be able to use stunnel to get the same effect. Note that some authors say that SMTP-over-TLS is deprecated in favour of STARTTLS.