TLS issue with exim4 + gnutls26

[Volker Grabsch]

Volker Grabsch schrieb:
> Andreas Metzler schrieb:
> > On 2013-11-17 Volker Grabsch <v at njh.eu> wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Thanks for the information. So in the future I might
> try to generate a new certificate to solve this issue.

For the record: I finally generated a new certificate
and indeed, this solved the issue. I also replaced the
self-compiled packages with the unmodified Exim4 packages
of Debian/Stable, and everything worked.


Regards,
Volker

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Volker Grabsch
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