secure smtp 🔗 link

Is anyone using hobbit to monitor smtps (secure smtp) ?

I am unable to get hobbit to use STARTTLS as I get this error message:
Unspecified SSL error in SSL_connect to smtp (6400/tcp) on host
xxx.xxx.xxx.xx: error:140770FC:SSL
routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol

bb-hosts looks like this:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx	hostname	# smtps

and bb-services looks like this:

[smtps]
   send "mail\r\nquit\r\n"
   expect "220"
   options ssl,banner
#  No default port-number assignment for smtps - nonstandard according
to IANA
   port 25


any idea ?

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:28:50AM +0000, Jon Bjorn Njalsson wrote:

The SMTP STARTTLS is not supported in Hobbit.

For availability, you should be able to just use plain "smtp" - since you will be talking plain SMTP until the client (i.e. Hobbit) issues
the "STARTTLS" command. So you can test this type of server as if it were un-encrypted.

It would be nice to support STARTTLS - not only for SMTP, but also for some of the other protocols (POP3, IMAP come to mind). That would
require some major surgery on the network testing code, though.


Henrik