@charite were suddenly encountering several domains that don't seem to implement STARTTLS properly.
mailq exhibits the following behaviour: 3VRgn515L4zKg2v 443924 Tue Apr 10 10:01:13 sen...@charite.de (lost connection with mail2.trioncology.org[81.252.237.162] while sending RCPT TO) recipi...@trioncology.org 3VRkVt1QCQz1tpC 713456 Tue Apr 10 12:04:06 sen...@charite.de (lost connection with mail.seronosymposia.org[77.43.17.211] while sending MAIL FROM) recipi...@seronosymposia.org Examining these two with openssl yields: # openssl s_client -starttls smtp -CAfile /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt -connect 77.43.17.211:25 ... SSL handshake has read 2773 bytes and written 545 bytes --- New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DES-CBC3-SHA Server public key is 1024 bit Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : DES-CBC3-SHA Session-ID: 2C130000446B4890640EA3E2C7FC42CE3108961A70C69D555B0C2E7B561178F5 Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: 52E5135613B630FB7E573D7E471C2EB5301835559C5A6FCA25EF8615514A378AF4ABC05B7700ECC94BF676C4F3FCD343 Key-Arg : None PSK identity: None PSK identity hint: None SRP username: None Start Time: 1334227398 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 0 (ok) --- 250 OK and: # openssl s_client -starttls smtp -CAfile /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt -connect 81.252.237.162:25 CONNECTED(00000003) ... No client certificate CA names sent --- SSL handshake has read 2271 bytes and written 673 bytes --- New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DES-CBC3-SHA Server public key is 2048 bit Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : DES-CBC3-SHA Session-ID: 960600009866D220953A6C8C28D10A10CA17481F1D9CBE8C2D93A2F5679294AE Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: FED6B659598833657EDD05818253322342B77FA610ED2C7F7C8FFC7138CA53C828107DA110C40D8D867906BD60C5D82A Key-Arg : None PSK identity: None PSK identity hint: None SRP username: None Start Time: 1334227601 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 21 (unable to verify the first certificate) --- 250 OK and after that I cannot proceed in the SMTP dialogue at all. Either CTRL-D or CTRL-C will get me back to the command line. Disabling STARTTLS when sending mail there gets the mail delivered. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de