closed connection in response to STARTTLS

Remco00

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One of our DA boxes cannot receive mail from certain domains. There are no traces in the maillogs as why the mail was bounced. Other DA boxes do not have this problem although they are configured the same.

From the sysadmin of one of the sending mailservers I received lines from their mainlog:


Code:
2007-10-01 17:15:11 1IcMzG-0003XG-1f Remote host mail.domain.com [111.111.111.111] closed connection in 
response to STARTTLS
2007-10-01 17:15:12 1IcMzG-0003XG-1f == [email protected] R=dnslookup 
T=remote_smtp defer (-18): Remote host mail.domain.com [111.111.111.111] closed connection in response to STARTTLS
2007-10-01 17:15:28 Start queue run: pid=13647
2007-10-01 17:15:28 1IcMzG-0003XG-1f == [email protected] R=dnslookup 
T=remote_smtp defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host

This issue occurs with only a few sending domains. Is there anyone who can point me in a direction as where to look for the solution?

Box details:

Fedora 3
DirectAdmin v1.30.2
Apache 1.3.39
DirectAdmin 1.30.2
Exim 4.67
MySQL 4.1.21
Named 9.2.5
ProFTPd 1.3.0a
vm-Pop3d 1.1.7f-T6-DA
 
Thanks John, but that line was already in the exim.conf file. Exim keeps having problems with receiving mails using TLS. Google shows the issue is not heavily documented but could it have something to do with the exim.cert and exim.key files? I would be very grateful if anyone out here can lead me with this.

UPDATE: Updating Exim to version 4.68 (from 4.67), reinstalling openssl and a build all did the trick. Not certain what exactly caused this problem. If i find out, i will publish it in this posting.
 
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