Re: [exim] Issues with exim communicating with another serve…

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Author: Jakob Hirsch
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To: 'Exim-users'
Subject: Re: [exim] Issues with exim communicating with another server ( rfc1413 ? timeout ? tls ? )
Jonathan Vanasco wrote:

>     retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period


RTFF: http://exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/FAQ_6.html#TOC217

> I noticed a starttls error in one of the logs. Oddly though, I don't
> remember setting exim to speak via tls to MTAs - just MUAs


RTFM: This is done by default if you did set up TLS (i.e. configured a
key pair). If you don't want this, set "hosts_avoid_tls=*" in your smtp
transport(s).

> STARTTLS
>     Connection closed by foreign host.

>
> That struck me as odd -- shouldn't i get a
>     220 TLS go ahead
> off of that response?


yes.

> It seems that they're advertising something that they're not supporting.


broken implementation. maybe tls activated and no certificates.