Bug#482012: exim4: TLS incoming connections problems

Diego Guella diego.guella at sircomtech.com
Tue May 20 06:53:44 UTC 2008


Package: exim4
Version: 4.69-5
Severity: normal


I was using TLS with an Outlook Express client fine with version 4.69-2.
Yesterday, 4.69-5 went into lenny, I upgraded, and now i have these errors:

----- (from /var/log/exim4/mainlog)
TLS error on connection from (hostname) [ipaddress] (gnutls_handshake): Error in the push function.
-----

This blocks here, then Outlook Express have a timeout and closes the connection:

----- (from /var/log/exim4/mainlog)
unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command from (hostname) [ipaddress] (error: connection reset by peer)
-----

Then, I try again sending the message, but I get:

----- (from /var/log/exim4/mainlog)
TLS error on connection from (hostname) [ipaddress] (gnutls_handshake): A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
-----

And again blocks here, then Outlook Express times out, and the story begins again from the start...


Since yesterday many packages went into lenny, I'm not sure if Exim is the real cause of this problem, maybe it could be gnutls, or something other.

Where can I get exim 4.69-2 to test it again and see if it works?





-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 02-May-2008 12:58:06
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl Expand_dlfunc GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Content_Scanning Old_Demime
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql sqlite
Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl dovecot plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='false'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='maildir_home'
mailname:localhost

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.21     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.69-5+b1  support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy            4.69-5+b1  Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended

exim4 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* exim4/drec:





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