Re: [Exim] protocol violation: synchronization error

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Author: Mark Foster
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] protocol violation: synchronization error
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On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 07:02, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
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> Hello Exim users,
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> Since upgrading to 4.24 I am seeing alot of
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> "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (input sent without waiting for greeting)"
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> I haven't seen anything in common with these hosts. Some seem to be client machines
> using som MuA while the others are MDaemon server by Deerfield, or whatever it
> is now ;)
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> I have searched the archives and saw a suggestion which, to my understanding, seemed
> Outlook-centric. It suggested running another Exim daemon on port 465. I have done
> this by basically starting another Exim daemon with "-bd -oX 465 -tls-on-connect"
> I have tested if this is running using
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> openssl s_client -connect ns2.wananchi.com:465
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> .. and it behaves.
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> What I am lost about is how all this should fit in with the MDaemon problem.
> I don't think MDaemon is as dumb as M$ Outlook.
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> Any advise will be most welcome.

Have you tried setting
rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s
to disable the ident lookup? That may fix the problem albeit indirectly.
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