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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 4.87 reports no server certificate but appears to work?
On 07/04/16 00:31, Mike Tubby wrote:
> Anyone else seeing this with Exim 4.87?
>
>     Warning: No server certificate defined; TLS connections will fail.

>
> during "make install" and in panic log, while having a self-signed
> certificate defined (same config as Exim-4.86) and yet TLS appears to work?


What does your "make install" do? Does it for some reason execute
exim, with some bogus configuration?


> During "make install":
>
>>>> exim binary built
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/exim-4.87/build-Linux-i386'
> Installation directory is /usr/local/bin
>
> 2016-04-07 00:16:35 Warning: No server certificate defined; TLS
> connections will fail.
> Suggested action: either install a certificate or change
> tls_advertise_hosts option
> cp exim /usr/local/bin/exim-4.87-3
> /bin/chown root /usr/local/bin/exim-4.87-3
> ...


... looks like it did, before it copied the binary into place.


> During start-up:
>
> root@relay1:~/exim-4.87# service exim start
> * Starting Exim MTA [ OK ]
> Warning: Exim paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken
> root@relay1:~/exim-4.87# cat /var/log/exim/paniclog
> 2016-04-07 00:16:35 Warning: No server certificate defined; TLS
> connections will fail.
> Suggested action: either install a certificate or change
> tls_advertise_hosts option


Now, that one is more interesting. What configuration was actually
being used then?

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Cheers,
Jeremy