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Re: error about TLS when sending mail

but Outlook works well with that server... can mutt ignores that error msg?

lars
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Kyle Wheeler wrote:

> On Thursday, April 30 at 09:12 PM, quoth Chengqi(Lars) Song:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I always get this message when sending mail:
> >
> >  Apr 30 20:24:19 host=smtp.abc.com tls=on auth=on user=lars 
> > from=lars@xxxxxxx recipients=larsGG.tospace@xxxxxxx errormsg='TLS handshake 
> > failed: The Diffie Hellman prime sent by the server is not acceptable (not 
> > long enough).' exitcode=EX_PROTOCOL
> >
> >the domain name is substituded to abc.com for privacy.
> >
> >When I use other msmtp servers there is nothing wrong. only the 'abc.om' has 
> >this problem. How can I fix it?
> 
> Sounds like it's their problem, not yours. If you can force your mail 
> server to avoid using TLS when talking to them, then you can probably 
> send mail, but ... their TLS setup is basically broken. Not much you 
> can do other than avoid it.
> 
> ~Kyle
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