Bug#355272: exim4-daemon 4.60-3 fails TLS

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sun Mar 5 09:21:14 UTC 2006


On 2006-03-04 ZHANG Guiyu <kuiyu at mosuma.com> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon
> Version: 4.60-3
> Severity: important

> TLS authentication using the same 2 attached config files

> a) fails with exim4-daemon 4.60-3 (see exim4-daemon 4.60 log below)

> b) works with exim4-daemon 4.52 (see exim4-daemon 4.52 log below)

> Client used to connect to exim4: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 ("use TLS" option in SMTP setting) running on Windows XP

> exim4-daemon 4.60-3  uses libgnutls.so.12.3.6
> exim4-daemon 4.52    uses lignutls.so.11.1.16

> Error may be caused by libgnutls linked to exim 4.60.
[...]
> -------------------------------------
> Starting MTA: Exim version 4.60 uid=0 gid=0 pid&248 D�b95cfd
[...]
> 26251 initializing GnuTLS as a server
> 26251 LOG: MAIN
> 26251   TLS error on connection from ([192.168.0.100]) [202.156.83.43] (tls-init): The gcrypt library version is too old.
> 26251 SMTP>> 454 TLS currently unavailable
> -------------------------------------
[...]

This sounds like another instance of #330019.

We'll need version information.
dpkg -l exim4-daemon-light libgnutls12 libgcrypt11 libgpg-error0 libopencdk8 libtasn1-2

It works for me with current sid (on ix86).
ii  exim4-daemon-l 4.60-3         lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  libgcrypt11    1.2.2-1        LGPL Crypto library - runtime library
ii  libgnutls12    1.2.9-2        the GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0  1.2-1          library for common error values and messages
ii  libopencdk8    0.5.7-2        Open Crypto Development Kit (OpenCDK) (runti
ii  libtasn1-2     0.2.17-1       Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
swaks -q ehlo -s localhost -tls
[...]
 -> STARTTLS
<-  220 TLS go ahead
=== TLS started w/ cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
 ~> EHLO argenau.downhill.at.eu.org
<~  250-argenau Hello argenau.downhill.at.eu.org [127.0.0.1]
<~  250-SIZE 52428800
<~  250-PIPELINING
<~  250 HELP
 ~> QUIT

 cu andreas
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