Debian Exim4 SMTP-AUTH stopped working - smtp

Question

I have a strange problem that recently popped on my Debian Squeeze server.
I've had Exim4 configured to use SMTP-AUTH with encryption setup and running on this box for a long time, but now it doesn't work.
At first I thought it was maybe my certificates expired, but that wasn't the case, they're good for several more years.
It appears that the server isn't listening on port 25 any longer.
If I try to telnet to port 25 it times out.
If I run netstat -tulpen on the server nothing is listening on port 25.
I'm using the splitconf for Exim4.
In conf.d/main I'm enabling MAIN_TLS_ENABLE=true
In conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples I have the following
# Authenticate against local passwords using sasl2-bin
# Requires exim_uid to be a member of sasl group, see README.Debian.gz
plain_saslauthd_server:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
server_condition = ${if saslauthd{{$auth2}{$auth3}}{1}{0}}
server_set_id = $auth2
server_prompts = :
.ifndef AUTH_SERVER_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS
server_advertise_condition = ${if eq{$tls_cipher}{}{}{*}}
.endif
#
login_saslauthd_server:
driver = plaintext
public_name = LOGIN
server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::"
# don't send system passwords over unencrypted connections
server_condition = ${if saslauthd{{$auth1}{$auth2}}{1}{0}}
server_set_id = $auth1
.ifndef AUTH_SERVER_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS
server_advertise_condition = ${if eq{$tls_cipher}{}{}{*}}
.endif
On the server if I run this command:
swaks -a -tls -q HELO -s localhost -au A_USER_NAME -ap '<>'
I get this ...
=== Trying localhost:25...
* Error connecting 0.0.0.0 to localhost:25:
* IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection refused
Can someone point me to some more advanced debugging techniques?

Answer 1

OK. I figured it out.
Comcast blocks port 25. I don't know why this is coming up now, unless they've recently started blocking it.
I had to change a line in /etc/default/exim4
From this
SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS='-oX 25 -oP /var/run/exim4/exim.pid'
To this
SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS='-oX 465:25 -oP /var/run/exim4/exim.pid'
I also added this to /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/03_exim4-config_tlsoptions
tls_on_connect_ports=465
It's odd that this just popped up, unless a Debian package updated the /etc/default/exim4 file. It's confusing, but it's working. Hopefully this will be helpful to someone in the future.
Cheers.