The message should read "The TLS connection was improperly terminated.", methinks.
Anyway, I am not sure what I haven't done correctly because all SMTP transactions with gmail servers end up wit this message: ``` 2025-06-05 09:59:18 1uN4ZJ-0000000AHNl-1aFZ H= alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.131.26] TLS error on connection (recv): The TLS connection was non-properly terminated. ``` wash@eu:/scripts$ exim -bV Exim version 4.98.1 #2 built 27-Mar-2025 16:04:05 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2018 (c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2024 Hints DB: Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September 9, 2013) Support for: Content_Scanning crypteq Expand_dlfunc iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS move_frozen_messages TLS_resume DANE DKIM DNSSEC ESMTP_Limits ESMTP_Wellknown Event I18N OCSP PIPECONNECT PRDR PROXY Queue_Ramp SOCKS SPF SRS TCP_Fast_Open Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql sqlite Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl dovecot external plaintext spa tls Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Malware: f-protd f-prot6d drweb fsecure sophie clamd avast sock cmdline Fixed never_users: 0 Configure owner: 0:0 Size of off_t: 8 2025-06-05 10:00:00 cwd=/scripts 2 args: exim -bV Configuration file search path is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf:/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated Configuration file is /etc/exim4/exim4.conf -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html] -- ## subscription configuration (requires account): ## https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ ## unsubscribe (doesn't require an account): ## [email protected] ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
