[plug] Debian Sarge + Exim4 + Smarthost relay

[Phillip]

Sorry to sabotage the thread but you wouldn't happen to know a Mathew Hunt?

Phillip.

On 5/12/05, Michael Hunt <michael at aussie.oddsocks.net> wrote:
> Hi ya all,
> 
> I have just noticed that over the last couple of days my ever reliable
> sarge + exim4 + Arachnet as a smarthost mail server setup is now become
> not so reliable.
> 
> /var/log/exim4/mainlog lists errors like the following :-
> 
> SMTP error from remote mailer after STARTTLS: host mx1.arach.net.au [203.30.44.129]:
> 454 TLS missing certificate: error:0200100D:system library:fopen:Permission denied (#4.3.0):
> 
> I'm assuming that because of the '454 TLS missing certificate' that
> sometime during the setting up the connection to relay one end is trying
> to authenticate the connection and fails. Since I currently don't need
> to enter authentication details in evolution in order to use Arachnet's
> smtp mail server, I'm assuming that the problem is at my end.
> 
> Some googling turned up some info that Debian's exim4 now supports TLS
> by default and that my end probably hasn't had appropriate certificates
> setup. So far I have always setup exim4 using debconf and filling in the
> boxes and haven't had much experience with exim's conf files. If anyone
> could point me to the appropriate changes for switching of TLS or tell
> me how to generate certificates I would much appreciate the assistance.
> 
> Of course if you think I am barking up the wrong tree then telling me so
> would also be 'very' helpful too :-)
> 
> Michael Hunt
> 
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