Stupid Question Time, MS Exchange 2010 Edition.

[theweaselking]

Stupid question: How does one tell a MS Exchange 2010 server that one wishes it to accept SMTPS connections? I'm talking SSL-encrypted SMTP, where the connection is encrypted first before any communication is done, not ESMTP-style TLS encryption where the server identifies itself as an SMTP server and the clients sends STARTTLS before the encryption begins.

Can someone find me documentation, a step-by-step-howto, or anything else, to enable an Exchange 2010 server to accept SSL-not-TLS connections?

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

As far as I know Exchange 2007 and later only support TLS, not SSL.

I guess you could smarthost via a SSL/SMTP server.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

So... 2003 *only* speaks SSL, 2007+ *only* speaks TLS?

That's insane.

(I hate computers.)

[nsanity-au.livejournal.com]

Upgrade mail clients?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Not always possible and/or practical.

(And the stupid smarthost that speaks TLS outgoing and accepts whatever we fucking want on the inside is having dumbass authentication problems because BOB HELP YOU if you just want the fucking thing to send fucking mail.)

[fuster-cluck.livejournal.com]

Typically i create a smarthost to run smtp sends through to the exchange box itself. i.e. configure a smarthost on a separate machine which isnt doing much, but is always on.

http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208285064