David Brooks <daveb@???> (So 08 Jan 2006 23:25:43 CET):
> I have configured SMTP auth and TLS on my server (as per some articles I
> found somewhere) so I can now tell Thunderbird to use my Exim4 server as
> the sending SMTP server with a username/password. It did work initially,
> but for long periods it seems to fail when I send an email. I tried
> telneting to port 25 to see what is going on, and it responds to my EHLO
> but when I type STARTTLS it just does nothing. Eventually Thunderbird
> seems to timeout and gives an error about the server being down.
Missing entropy?
Just to test it: (re)move /dev/random and symlink
/dev/urandom as /dev/random.
Best regards from Dresden
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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