Re: [exim] TLS with gmail started failing

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Auteur: Marc MERLIN
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À: Andreas Metzler
CC: exim-users
Sujet: Re: [exim] TLS with gmail started failing
On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 06:58:32AM +0200, Andreas Metzler via Exim-users wrote:
> Marc MERLIN via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
> >> On 07/06/2019 17:16, Marc MERLIN via Exim-users wrote:
> >> > Is my cipher list unsuitable? cipher: TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256
>
> [...]
> > Sorry, I totally failed to give a required bit of info, which exim I have.
> > debian exim4 4.87-3+b1
>
> > I don't upgrade unless I have to, as a general policy :)
>
> Hello,
>
> Combining 3 years old exim with with quite recent (>= 3.6.4) GnuTLS
> seems to be an adventorous choice to me. There is at least one known
> issue.
>
> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2359


Thank you for that bug, looks a lot like what I hit.

So, you're thinking that something else upgraded my gnutls, that in turn
the new package missed a non compat flag with older exim4, so the old
exim4 stayed, and things broke

If so, that sounds very plausible.

Thanks for that
Marc
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