Bug#517394: exim4-daemon-heavy: Incoming connection fails with "(gnutls_handshake): A TLS fatal alert has been received."

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-02-27 Rasmus Bøg Hansen <rasmus at msconsult.dk> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> Version: 4.69-9
> Severity: normal


> In Lenny, incoming connection from one server (only) fails with the
> following error message:

> 2009-02-27 09:36:56 TLS error on connection from mail.example.com (example.com) [1.1.1.1] (gnutls_handshake): A TLS fatal alert has been received.
[...]

> Disabling TLS for this particular host (see below) apparently fixes
> the problem but I see it as a workaround and not a real solution.

> I am unsure how to proceed now (I have no control of the remote
> server whatsoever), but I will gladly debug, help and provide
> information on this.
[...]

Could you doublecheck whether disabling certificate verification works
as a workaround?
MAIN_TLS_VERIFY_CERTIFICATES = /dev/null

thanks, cu andreas
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