[CentOS] CentOS-5.10 Sendmail STARTTLS error

Tue Nov 25 22:06:28 UTC 2014
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

Am 25.11.2014 um 21:39 schrieb James B. Byrne:
> This morning I discovered this in the logwatch report for our external MX
> backup host.
>
>
> STARTTLS: write error=syscall error (-1), errno=32,
> get_error=error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0), retry=99, ssl_err=5: 206
> Time(s)
>
>
>
> I also see many entries similar to this:
>
>
>
>        8: fl=0x802, mode=140777: SOCK
> inet04.mississauga.harte-lyne.ca/34091->(Transport endpoint is not connected):
> 1 Time(s)
>      MCI at 0x8055b34:
> flags=27c86c<CACHED,ESMTP,SIZE,8BITMIME,DSN,INMIME,AUTH,AUTHACT,ENHSTAT,PIPELINED,TLSACT>,
> errno=32, herrno=0, exitstat=75, state=8, pid=0, maxsize=20480000, phase=client
> DATA 354, mailer=esmtp, status=4.4.2, rstatus=(null),
> host=inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca., lastuse=Mon Nov 24 10:56:35 2014\n: 1
> Time(s)
>      MCI at 0x8053aa4:
> flags=27c86c<CACHED,ESMTP,SIZE,8BITMIME,DSN,INMIME,AUTH,AUTHACT,ENHSTAT,PIPELINED,TLSACT>,
> errno=32, herrno=0, exitstat=75, state=8, pid=0, maxsize=20480000, phase=client
> DATA 354, mailer=esmtp, status=4.4.2, rstatus=(null),
> host=inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca., lastuse=Mon Nov 24 18:41:32 2014\n: 1
> Time(s)
>      MCI at 0x8053aa4:
> flags=27c86c<CACHED,ESMTP,SIZE,8BITMIME,DSN,INMIME,AUTH,AUTHACT,ENHSTAT,PIPELINED,TLSACT>,
> errno=32, herrno=0, exitstat=75, state=8, pid=0, maxsize=20480000, phase=client
> DATA 354, mailer=esmtp, status=4.4.2, rstatus=(null),
> host=inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca., lastuse=Tue Nov 25 07:41:32 2014\n: 1
> Time(s)

 From what kind of logfile are those lines? That's not Sendmail log style.

> I have not seen this sort of thing before and I am wondering what it means?
> Googling has not provided anything useful.  In case this was an incipient HDD
> error I rebooted with /forcefsck but on CentOS-5 one obtains no log of the rc
> report.  I am also not entirely clear on whether or not /forcefsck actually
> repairs any errors. Thus it may not mean much to have done this.


The first system in question simply does not support TLS and it fails 
while testing.

250-inet04.mississauga.harte-lyne.ca Hello msg.sys5.org [5.45.103.173], 
pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 24000000
250-DSN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
QUIT

Without knowing your Sendmail setup and what is causing the kind of log 
content it is hard to give you a hint. Exit state 75 is TEMPFAIL. 
STARTTLS works for inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca.

Alexander