Re[2]: [Exim] STARTTLS error

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Author: Richard Welty
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To: exim Maillingliste
Subject: Re[2]: [Exim] STARTTLS error
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:17:21 +0100 Anand Buddhdev <arb@???> wrote:

> 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


> It means the remote end has been told to advertise STARTTLS, but is
> in fact not configured with the proper TLS certificates and keys. I've
> also seen Exchange servers which has been misconfigured like that. It
> shouldn't be a problem though, as exim should just ignore the error,
> and deliver without using TLS.


true in 4.10, not true in some older 4.x variants. i don't know if
it got fixed in the late 3.x versions, i got out of 3.x a while ago.

richard
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