Bug#280647: [exim] Why did this message get frozen?

[Philip Hazel]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> >  2686 Calling gnutls_record_recv(813ce08, bfffd070, 4096)
> >  2686 Got TLS_EOF
> [...]
> 
> It looks like gnutls cannot handle that host (easily verifyable with
> gnutls-cli) and exim has difficulties handling that.

>From the changelog for 4.40:

18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was   
    using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process  
    crashed while trying to generate an error log message.                    

That would seem to be the explanation.
                                                                               
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