Re: [Evolution] FC6 (and FC5 updated) Evolution to Exim STARTTLS not supported

[John Austin <ja jaa org uk>]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 01:41 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 02.11.2006, 16:34 +0000 schrieb John Austin:
> > "Error while performing operation."
> >
> > "Failed to connect to SMTP server 148.197.29.5 in secure mode:
> > STARTTLS not supported"
>
> please make sure that you have not set evolution to use TLS
> ("Edit>Preferences>Mail Accounts>Edit>Security"), if your mail server
> does not support it. :-)
>
> > Evolution now fails with the same error as FC6 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> hmm, looks like your exclamation mark key is broken.
>
> cheers,
> andre
>
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Hi

Many thanks for the reply

TLS is selected in evolution and exim definitely does support it.
Selecting SSL gives Connection Refused
Selecting No Encryption works OK

1. FC5 evolution works perfectly using TLS to exim
   before upgrading from evolution-2.6.0-1.i386 to
   2.6.3-1.fc5.5

2. I have also tried the following telnet connection
   and exim mentions STARTTLS

###################################################
avon.jaa.org.uk ~ 1000# telnet maui 25
Trying 148.197.29.5...
Connected to maui.jaa.org.uk (148.197.29.5).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 maui.jaa.org.uk ESMTP Exim 4.62 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:00:33 +0000
ehlo avon
250-maui.jaa.org.uk Hello avon [148.197.29.3]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-PIPELINING
250 HELP
HELP
214-Commands supported:
214 AUTH STARTTLS HELO EHLO MAIL RCPT DATA NOOP QUIT RSET HELP
QUIT
221 maui.jaa.org.uk closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
avon.jaa.org.uk ~ 1001#
####################################################

Are there any suitable commands I can enter to test things further using
telnet?

I'm very surprised nobody seems to have seen this.
I have googled quite a lot and asked Fedora and Evolution lists.

However I am certainly not a mailer expert !

Cheers
John