Re: [gentoo-dev] [Fwd: WARNING: delayed mail.]

[MAL]

Sorry to reply to my own post, but noone responded to mine.

It would appear that whoever runs the gentoo.org mail server, has 
finally disabled TLS, assumedly after realising it was broken.

If other people out there have problems with this, Courier allows you to 
disable outgoing TLS, to workaround broken mail servers..

On Gentoo, edit /etc/courier/courierd and change:

ESMTP_USE_STARTTLS=1

(the default), to:

ESMTP_USE_STARTTLS=0

MAL


MAL wrote:
> Please could someone fix the gentoo.org mail server, (see the attached
> delivery report for example).
>
> I just confirmed it by telnetting to your server:
>
> $ telnet mail.gentoo.org 25
> Trying 204.126.2.42...
> Connected to mail.gentoo.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mail.gentoo.org ESMTP
> HELO localhost
> 250 mail.gentoo.org
> STARTTLS
> 454 TLS missing certificate: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such
> file or directory (#4.3.0)
>
>
> looks like the mail server needs recompiling ;)
>
> I tried mailing gentoo-user-owner and gentoo-security-owner before, but
> no reply.
>
> I think the change must have happened within the last 2 weeks, as before
> then I could send to gentoo-user via my TLS capable mail server.
>
> Cheers,
> MAL
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: WARNING: delayed mail.
> From: "Komcept Solutions Ltd. mail server" <postmaster@××××××××××××××.com>
> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:15:38 +0100
> To: mal@×××××××.com
>
> This is a delivery status notification from komcept-gw1.komcept.gotdns.com,
> running the Courier mail server, version 0.42.2.
>
> The original message was received on Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:15:24 +0100
> from komcept.com ([::ffff:192.168.0.7])
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                      DELAYS IN DELIVERING YOUR MESSAGE
>
> The delivery of the following E-mail message has been delayed.  This is an
> advisory notice only; it is sent only to notify you about a temporary delay
> in delivering your message.  You DO NOT need to do anything at this time.
> Additional attempts to deliver your message will be made.  Some possible
> reasons for this delay:
>
>    * Network congestion or failure.
>
>    * The destination mail server is temporarily off-line.
>
> Diagnostic information is provided below for each recipient.  If copies of
> this message were sent to additional recipients, deliveries to those
> addresses are not included in this notice.  This is an advisory notice for
> the following addresses only:
>
> <gentoo-user@g.o>:
>     mail.gentoo.org [204.126.2.42]:
>
>>>>STARTTLS
>
> <<< 454 TLS missing certificate: error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory (#4.3.0)


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