Re: [exim] Weird STARTTLS problem

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Weird STARTTLS problem
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:10:35 +0200, Jerome Louvel
<contact@???> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>We have two client machines behind the same router, with the same public
> IP address. Using telnet, we can both connect to a remote Exim 4 SMTP
>server.
>
>However, one can't start a TLS session for an unknown reason (454). Here
>is the trace for the telnet client succeeding:
>
>220 alaska.noelios.com ESMTP Exim 4.63 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:05:17 +0200
>EHLO colorado
>250-alaska.noelios.com Hello m215.net81-67-81.noos.fr [81.67.81.215]
>250-SIZE 52428800
>250-PIPELINING
>250-STARTTLS
>250 HELP
>STARTTLS
>220 TLS go ahead
>
>Now the one for the telnet client failing:
>
>220 alaska.noelios.com ESMTP Exim 4.63 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:06:32 +0200
>EHLO colorado
>250-alaska.noelios.com Hello m215.net81-67-81.noos.fr [81.67.81.215]
>250-SIZE 52428800
>250-PIPELINING
>250-STARTTLS
>250 HELP
>STARTTLS
>454 TLS temporairement indisponible
>
>The last 454 message means "temporarily unavailable" in French. We
>couldn't find additional debug/log information on the server.


Exims Messages are never translated. I suspect you have some
transparent proxy in place which goofs up on the first host but not on
the second.

Greetings
Marc

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