Re: [exim] Problem with TLS connection

Hill Ruyter <hill@???> wrote:

> I am having a problem with my exim since a recent power outage and I
> don¹t know what has changed

> I am getting the following error on TLS connections from my client.
> If I turn off SSL at the client end I can send mail but that is not
> ideal Any help as to what I should be checking much appreciated

> The error message I get is :

> 2011-05-18 14:13:45 [3028] TLS error on connection from
> 87-194-206-124.bethere.co.uk [87.194.206.124]:51620
> I=[192.168.1.100]:587 (gnutls_handshake): A TLS packet with unexpected
> length was received.

Yeah, pretty known incompatibility between the gnutls-based SSL
implementation and several clients.

Recompile exim to use OpenSSL and the problem will go away. But be sure
to _not_ redistribute the resulting packages, as this would violate the
GPL. Local use is fine though.

The Debian/Ubuntu packages are prepared to be recompiled. Just edit
"debian/rules", find the commented "OpenSSL:=1" line, activate it,
rebuild, done.

Grüße,
Sven.

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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.