On 27 April 2018 at 08:57, Poliman - Serwis <ser...@poliman.pl> wrote:

> 2018-04-27 8:22 GMT+02:00 Dominic Raferd <domi...@timedicer.co.uk>:
>>
>> I have always received a number of warning messages (from
>> postfix/smtpd) stating 'TLS library problem' in my mail logs and I
>> think they are always followed by a dropped incoming connection. I
>> have hitherto assumed that they reflect a badly-configured (probably
>> spamming) foreign client/host, but the messages could be read as
>> implying an internal problem on my mailserver. Which is true?
>>
>> The details of the reported error messages over the recent period can
>> be summarised thus:
>>
>> $ grep -a "warning: TLS library problem" /var/log/mail.log.1
>> /var/log/mail.log|grep -o "error:.*"|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr
>>      12 error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version
>> number:s3_pkt.c:362:
>>      11 error:1408A10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_client_hello:wrong
>> version number:s3_srvr.c:960:
>>      10 error:140760FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown
>> protocol:s23_srvr.c:640:
>>       2 error:1408A0E3:SSL routines:ssl3_get_client_hello:parse
>> tlsext:s3_srvr.c:1239:
>>
>> Should I be concerned about these messages?
> I have almost same logs. Some time ago I asked people on this mailing list.
> They said that somebody tries to connect to your server but he can't because
> of too old ssl he uses. You can ignore it.


Thanks for your reply. In the absence of comments to the contrary I
take that as canonical. I still think the TLS library problem warning
message is confusing, but at least I can stop worrying about it.

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