Bug#370714: exim4: seems to always require auth

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-06-06 Brian White <bcwhite at precidia.com> wrote:
[...]
>Marc Haber:
> >Please note "if authentication fails, exim will try to transfer the
> >message unauthenticated".
> >
> >If you still think this is wrong, please show an example of a message
> >transmission failing and outline a way to fix the issue.

> The problem is when used in conjunction with the next line:

> 	tls_tempfail_tryclear = false

> When both were set (and no password available in the file), the system 
> would just sit forever waiting.
[...]

Sounds like the server you are sending to *is* responding to STARTTLS
with a temporary error. You will need to show us debugging info,
logfile messages, etc.

apt-get install swaks  libnet-ssleay-perl
swaks -s probably.broken.server -tls -q ehlo

Or perhaps
 echo foo | exim -d address at delivered.through.broken.server

cu andreas
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