Re: [Exim] Problem sending mail to one host ..

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Author: Anand Buddhdev
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To: Exim Users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Problem sending mail to one host ..
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:45:15AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> > >I have a problem sending mail to one host on the Internet from one of
> > >my servers.
> > >
> > >I have done a test delivery, whose data can be found here:
> > >
> > >http://ns2.wananchi.com/~wash/Eximstats/test.txt
> > >
> > >Any clues as to why this is happening???? I'm concerned because it's not
> > >happening from all the boxes I run Exim on.
> >
> > Mhhhhh
> > Looks like this MTA does not accept a second EHLO after STARTTLS, this
> > is (IMHO) a bug and breaks RFC, after STARTTLS the connection should be
> > in a clear state again.
> >
> > try to set
> > hosts_avoid_tls=57.250.220.29
> >
> > and see what happens, this should disable TLS for this server.
>
> I built exim with TLS support using
>
> SUPPORT_TLS=yes
> TLS_LIBS=-lssl -lcrypto
>
> ..but I did not configure TLS options, certs etc.


No need to.

> Looks like I am the one to blame, no?
>
> With TLS support in the exim binary, exim says that "hosts_avoid_tls" main
> option is unknown....


hosts_avoid_tls is an option of the smtp transport; it's not a global
setting. You've entered it in the wrong place. Move it to the smtp
transport section, and try again.

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