[Pkg-exim4-users] Sudden failure of TLS from one client

[Andreas Metzler]

Neil S. Briscoe <neil.briscoe at censornet.com> wrote:
> All of our servers around the globe are running Debian Lenny with one 
> exception, which is running Ubuntu.

> This latter host suddenly started to fail sending mails through to the 
> smarthost.

> On this client server the error messages were
> TLS error on connection to server.example.tld [1.2.3.4] 
> (gnutls_handshake): Internal error in memory allocation.
[...]

The only mahjor difference I can think off is this one:

Gnutls in Ubuntu (at least jaunty) and Debian lenny differs in the
handling of x509 v1 root certificates. Debian lenny is patched to
accept them by default. Ubuntu and Debian sid keep upstream's behavior
of rejecting these certs by default.

cu andreas

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