Re: [Exim] STARTTLS error

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Author: Steve Haslam
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To: exim Maillingliste
Subject: Re: [Exim] STARTTLS error
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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:45:26AM +0100, Jens Vonderheide wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when sending mails to some addresses, I get this error:
>
> SMTP error from remote mailer after STARTTLS: host mvs.mediaways.net
> [62.53.235.28]:
> 454 TLS not available: missing RSA private key (#4.3.0):
> retry timeout exceeded
>
> (sorry for the long line)
>
> This SMTP server seems to be running qmail, I am using exim version 3.34.
> I have not worked with TLS yet, so I am totally clueless.
> Is there anything I can configure on my side to avoid this error or is
> the remote server just configured wrong?


The remote server is badly configured. Iirc, you can set an option called
"hosts_avoid_tls" in your smtp transport to disable using TLS with this
host.

SRH
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