On 7/31/2015 5:54 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Bowie Bailey writes:
>
>> courieresmtpd: courieresmtpd: STARTTLS failed: DEBUG: Unexpected SSL
>> connection shutdown.
>>
>> I've been seeing this message in my logs quite a bit recently. The IP
>> addresses that it comes from (based on the previous "started" line, are
>> all outlook.com addresses.  I am having a problem getting emails from
>> someone who is using an the outlook.com servers for his email, so I
>> think this is related.
>>
>> Apparently, Outlook doesn't like something about my SSL setup. These
>> errors and the bounceback errors I have been provided by the sender
>> don't give any clues to the actual problem.
>
> The actual problem is that the remote server terminated the network 
> connection, without any further information. There's really nothing 
> much more that can be said about it.
>
>> I have the protocol set to SSL23, which should allow everything
>> according to the comments in the file.  Any suggestions?
>
> There's been some recent chatter that MS-ware is now requiring 
> 2048-bit DH keys.
>
> Run the mkdhparams script, with the DH_BITS environment variable set 
> to 2048.

I already did that.  Thunderbird's IMAP client won't connect otherwise.

I see that the default protocol setting is now "TLSv1+".  Would I be 
risking any problems if I changed from "SSL23" to "TLSv1+"?  How many 
servers out there are incapable of doing TLS?

-- 
Bowie

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