Bug#674990: exim breaks (again?) with TLS packet with unexpected length

Norbert PREINING preining at jaist.ac.jp
Tue May 29 05:40:35 UTC 2012


Package: exim4-daemon-light
Version: 4.77-1+b1
Severity: serious
Submitter: Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>

Hi all,

I have searched the bug database and the web for information, and I cannot
get it to work, exim *always* dies with 

TLS error on connection to xxx.yyy.zzz.www [NN.NN.NN.NN] (gnutls_handshake): A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.

I have found various suggestions, like adding the Debian-exim user
to the group shadow, but none of it helped.

I am just trying to deliver mail to an smtp server here
at work.

Furthermore, I cannot run swaks, it segfaults in libcrypto
(all messed up, really).

When I do 
$ openssl s_client -connect xxx.yyy.zzz.www:587
CONNECTED(00000003)
139642052535976:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:766:
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 320 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
---
$

So also this does not help really. 

The remote server is not under my control, but is advertised as
smtp server in my university.

Thanks for any suggestion

Norbert






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