[Exim] Re: Bug#220773: exim4 won't send client-side certific…

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Auteur: Andreas Metzler
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Aan: exim-users
CC: Noah Meyerhans, 220773-forwarded
Onderwerp: [Exim] Re: Bug#220773: exim4 won't send client-side certificates
Hello,
This is Bug#220773, reported against Debian GNU/Linux' bug tracking
sytem, I cannot verify it locally as I am not using TLS certificate
verification. Please cc both the bug-submitter and 220773-forwarded@??? on followups, thanks.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:50:14AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> Version 4.24-3
>
> Exim doesn't send a certificate when operating on the client-end of a
> secure SMTP conversation, even when properly configured. I suspect
> that this is either a bug with GNUTLS or with the Exim upstream sources.
> Exim behaves correctly when built against the OpenSSL libraries. This
> is going to cause my organization problems when sarge is released, as
> Debian is our standard Unix OS and we use certificate-based
> authentication to control relaying on our central mail server (which
> also runs Debian, though it uses a local build of Exim 4 as it's running
> woody).
>
> The feature that is busted is described in section 36.4 of the exim spec
> at http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.20/doc/html/spec.html
>
> When watching exim in debug mode, it's clear that it is looking for and
> finding the certificates, and it's not given any errors related to them.
> But it never sends them.
>
> I don't have the debug output handy right now, but can provide it and
> tcpdump output if you want to see it.