Pkg exim4 users - Jan 2012 - Using a smarthost with tls

Hi,

I have a system with exim (from squeeze) configured to use an smarthost to 
send message. We are having some troubles and the ISP have asked us to use tls 
in the communications.

I have enabled the tls, but I have not be able to send any message using tls. 
Executing exim in a console and sending a message I got this:

[.....]

a TLS session is required for smtp.xxxxxx.net [xx.xx.209.32], but an attempt 
to start TLS failed
LOG: MAIN
  == leo at alaxarxa.net R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (-38): a TLS 
session is required for smtp.xxxxxx.net [xx.xx.209.32], but an attempt to 
start TLS failed

I have be able to make a tls session with the server using:

openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect smtp.xxxxxx.net:25

the server has a self signed certificate and no CA.

Any idea what is going wrong?

Regards,

Leo


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Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo at alaxarxa.net>
wrote:
> I have a system with exim (from squeeze) configured to use an
> smarthost to send message. We are having some troubles and the ISP
> have asked us to use tls in the communications.
[..]
> a TLS session is required for smtp.xxxxxx.net [xx.xx.209.32], but an
attempt
> to start TLS failed
> LOG: MAIN
>  == leo at alaxarxa.net R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (-38): a
TLS
> session is required for smtp.xxxxxx.net [xx.xx.209.32], but an attempt to 
> start TLS failed
> I have be able to make a tls session with the server using:
> openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect smtp.xxxxxx.net:25
> the server has a self signed certificate and no CA.
[...]

Can you connect using gnutls-cli? What is the DNS name of the server?

cu andreas