Re: [Exim] TLS - GNUTLS vs OpenSSL

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] TLS - GNUTLS vs OpenSSL
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:17:12PM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
[...]
> *** Starting TLS handshake
> *** Fatal error: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
> *** Handshake has failed

[...]
> I remember seing discussions about this topic on this list in october
> 2003. But a quick search didn't turned up the message, maybe Andreas
> can remember these mails, he was part of the discussions.
>
> IIRC, in this thread the client side was Debian with gnutls, the server
> side was exim with openssl. In this case the TLS connection did not
> work. After replacing exim with an openssl-enabled sendmail it worked
> without problems.

[...]

There is a known interconnectivity problem, documented in
http://bugs.debian.org/249210
                cu andreas