SSL with SMTP

[phantomk]

I am trying to figure out why SSL is not working for my setup when I try to send email via a 3rd party application, such as Thunderbird. TLS and regular smtp through port 25 work perfectly, but whenever I try to use SSL on port 465, the port is open, I get a smtp server connection error.

I have used the Perfect Debian Sarge howto found in the howto directory, great howto by the way Any help is apprecieated in this puzzleing problem :S

Confused as can be,
PK