Notification messages failing

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jan 11 23:08:42 GMT 2005


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Peter Bonivart wrote:

> Drew Marshall wrote:
>
>> Diane Rolland wrote:
>>
>>> Jan  9 15:01:09 prsvr02 sendmail[9085]: STARTTLS=client,
>>> relay=kdinet.com.mail5.psmtp.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL,
>>> cipher=AES256-SHA, bits=256/256
>>>
>>>
>> That will be the important bit then, some form of TLS/ authentication
>> error by the looks. I'm not a Sendmail user so I'll have to hand over to
>> someone else but this looks like the bit. Nothing to do with MailScanner
>> at all.
>
>
> I wouldn't call myself a TLS expert at all but I see these lines all the
> time without any error. To me it just means that two TLS capable MTA:s
> negotiated for authentication but it failed as in no matching
> certificates, not as in an actual technical error.

But the line after that failed with a "Service unavailable" error.

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