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

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:49:39AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.                    

Is the fix for this easily backportable to 4.34?

Greetings
Marc

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