[Gllug] Exim4 mail problem

Anthony Newman anthony.newman at ossified.net
Thu Apr 12 11:21:28 UTC 2007


t.clarke wrote:
> I killed off all the hung processes and restarted exim.  The mails were then
> sent OK.   Further inspection of the log revealed that the offending emails
> were all being sent using TLS 1.0 encryption.  More than one domain was affected
> so maybe there is some obscure bug in exim ?
> 
> I am going to suppress TLS with  'hosts_avoid_tls = *' and see if this solves
> the problem for future.

I've seen Exim fall on its face like this before because there was 
insufficient entropy available to establish onward TLS connections. 
Unless you need it, just turn off TLS for remote deliveries as you say.


Ant
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