Bug 80101

Summary:	Sendmail "STARTTLS: read error=generic SSL error (0)" filling up /var/log
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris Lyon <cslyon>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/STARTTLS__read_error=generic_SSL_error_(0).html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Chris Lyon 2005-01-30 09:58:31 UTC

I am running sendmail 8.12.11-r3 and have found this problem on many of my machines hence locking the machine up because the log file would be full in a matter of a few hours. A sendmail connection would be nailed up and the log file would be full of this:

Jan 29 01:49:09 smtp sendmail[32091]: STARTTLS: read error=generic SSL error (0)

I can only recreate the problem when someone try's to do a specific type of SSL connection that seems to be doing this. See the URL above for more information.

If you google "STARTTLS: read error=genric SSL error (0)" you will get some hit describing the issue.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See the URL above. The main problem is the system log files will fill up in a mater of no time
Actual Results:  
The system log files will fill up in a mater of no time. If the log partition is
full this stops the system.

Expected Results:  


Place this line at the bottom of:
/usr/portage/mail-mta/sendmail/files/site.config.m4 

APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF', `-D_FFR_DEAL_WITH_ERROR_SSL')

If you run emerge the errors goes away.

Comment 1 Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-12 04:58:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70715 ***