Re: [exim] Exim doesn't respond to STARTTLS

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Szerző: Marc Haber
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Tárgy: Re: [exim] Exim doesn't respond to STARTTLS
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:06:48 +0100, Heiko Schlittermann
<hs@???> wrote:
>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.


A better test on Linux would be to check the entropy pool itself, cat
/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail.

Also I'd like to know which OS/Distribution the OP is using.

Greetings
Marc

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