RE: [exim] PostINI and TLS - SMTP Transport errors

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Author: Simon Beale
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To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [exim] PostINI and TLS - SMTP Transport errors
> A few days ago, I started getting a couple messages a day
> that were frozen. The error indicated was:
>
> smtp transport process returned non-zero status 0x000b:
> terminated by signal 11
>
> A little research on Google turned up a post from Phillip
> indicating it might be a TLS bug that was fixed in 4.43.
> Upon further investigation, I discovered all these different
> addresses that were failing are using PostINI for their mail
> filtering. My configuration hasn't changed, and these are
> all addresses that people send to regularly, so I'm assuming
> something is going on with PostINI.
>
> A debug run of the frozen messages reveals that PostINI is
> advertising TLS, and that my system is attempting to use it.
> However, I haven't configured TLS on my box, nor do I really
> have a need for it. It's compiled in because I'm using the
> Debian exim4-daemon-heavy package for exiscan. Is there
> anyway I can quickly solve this problem?
>
> My system is a Debian Woody box, running Andreas' backported
> Exim4 packages, specifically exim4.34-6. If necessary, I can
> post the debug log and my configuration, but I'll hold off on
> that for now since they're rather large.


I was beating my head against this earlier today. In the end I added the
line: "hosts_avoid_tls = 64.18.4.10 : 64.18.5.10" to the remote_smtp
transport which seems to catch the *.psmtp.com MX machines.

Simon