[Pkg-exim4-users] SMTP AUTH server question with TLS

Brian Lavender brian at brie.com
Thu Jun 18 04:07:58 UTC 2009


It appears to be a problem with the CA list. I unchecked a number of CAs
in the list using the following command.

dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

And, it worked. It seems related to this thread.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-exim4-users/2008-April/001351.html

I did the port 465 with the SSL config.

brian

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:50:29PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
> For some reason, it just doesn't want to work.
> 
> In the file 03_exim4-config_tlsoptions, I put the option
> 
> tls_on_connect_ports=465
> 
> then in Outlook, I put in authenticate for outgoing mail using SSL and
> on port 465. But then on the log for Exim, I get the following error. 
> 
> 2009-06-17 20:49:55 TLS error on connection from 76-191-246-8.dsl.static.sonic.net [76.191.246.8] (gnutls_handshake): A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
> 
> This just baffles me.
> 
> brian
> 
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:38:45PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > In <20090617184256.GZ7673 at brie.com>, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > >I configured smtp auth over TLS for my Exim server, but when Outlook
> > >clients attempt to connect to it, they fail. Right now, I have a self
> > >signed certificate installed on Exim.
> > 
> > IIRC, Outlook may not like the modern negotiated TLS, and instead want to 
> > use the informal "SMTPS", where the TLS connection is set up immediately.
> > 
> > Make sure the Outlook clients are using a port listed in your 
> > tls_on_connect_ports in the "main" part of your configuration.  IIRC, 465 is 
> > the most common port used for "SMTPS".
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