Bug#343085: exim4: Exim SMTP_AUTH hangs since today...

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Mon Jan 30 22:02:14 UTC 2006


* Sven Hartge:

> Um 15:15 Uhr am 30.01.06 schrieb Florian Weimer:
>
>> Turns out the patch was broken.  This one should be better.  The 
>> comments above still apply.
>
> Sorry, but I patched and recompiled the exim4-package from Sarge, but any 
> encrypted mail transfer nearly empties the entropy pool.

Again, this is expected -- I tried to fix the blocking problem, not
the entropy consumption as such.  The entropy consumption is really a
libgcrypt issue; it does not make much sense to work around it in each
application individually.




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