TLS issue with exim4 + gnutls26

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Sun Nov 17 16:49:06 UTC 2013


On 2013-11-17 Volker Grabsch <v at njh.eu> wrote:
> Dear Exim4 Maintainers,

> (This email went to pkg-exim4-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org,
> but the mailserver seems to be down, so I'm sending this
> to you directly, just to be sure.)


> I just hunted down a very nasty issue with my running
> Exim4 mailserver. Many other mailserver had trouble
> establishing a TLS session via "STARTTLS". So I checked
> this by hand via gnutls-cli and these are my results:

> - works: gnutls-cli from Debian/oldstable
> - fails: gnutls-cli from Debian/stable
> - fails: gnutls-cli from Debian/testing+unstable
[...]

This looks exactly like
<http://mid.gmane.org/20131110100510.GA28384%40redoubt.spodhuis.org>
including the fact your cert is also using MD5.

cu Andreas

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