[Sysadmin] [Fwd: Re: Long-lost participation]

[Dean Mah]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Long-lost participation
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:19:48 -0400
From: Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org>
To: Dean Mah <dean.mah at gmail.com>
References: <44737E5A.1000901 at turmel.org>
<f4a098c50605231436u65787e41q694a2638df17adbc at mail.gmail.com>

Dean,

Thanks for the quick reply.  I won't be able to fix that from my end...
 Based on a quick google, that message is coming from your own qmail
send process.  My server (running exim) is not set up for TLS at all
(and received directly from you w/o problem), so the problem must be
occurring when dnsexit.com offers TLS w/ or w/o certificate, and your
server tries to offer a certificate and fails.

In the solutions I googled, a client certificate on the sending machine
had incorrect permissions.  The solutions were to delete the cert
entirely (run TLS certificateless), or copy the cert and give it
ownership and mode appropriate to the qmail send process.

I hope you are able to address this, as it is out of my control.

Regards,

Phil Turmel

Dean Mah wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The error that I am seeing is:
> 
> TLS_found_no_client_cert_in_control/clientcert.pem
> 
> If you fix that problem, mail should start to be delivered again.
>  
> Dean
> 
> 
> On 5/23/06, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Mr. Mah:
>>
>> I'm inquiring what might be done to solve a an e-mail delivery problem
>> that seems to be peculiar to thelist.
>>
>> I had long lurked on thelist, and occassionally contributed, prior to
>> Christmas, 2005.  That was when my ISP decided personal mailservers on
>> DSL connections would no longer be supported.  Without prior notice, my
>> inbound port 25 was closed.  With the holidays, and my continuing
>> ability to *send* e-mail, I didn't realize the problem for several
>> days.  I corrected the problem by setting up forwarding through
>> dnsexit.com on an alternate port, and all other subscriptions resumed.
>> thelist did not.  I presumed I got cut off by bounce messages, which I
>> know reset themselves eventually, so I left it alone.  thelist never
>> resumed.
>>
>> When I log in, I'm told I have a bounce score of 1.0 out of 100.0.  I
>> recently tried to resubscribe with an alternate email address,
>> pturmel-webdev at turmel.org, but I never received that welcome e-mail.
>> Meanwhile, I've successfully joined evolt.org and received its welcome
>> e-mail.  If you could poke at this for me I'd appreciate it.  If there
>> is something particular about the dnsexit forwarding service that
>> continues to block delivery from thelist, or from turmel.org itself,
>> please let me know.
>>
>> While I do subscribe to other web development lists, the high standards
>> (technical and professional) of thelist have been missed.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phil Turmel
>>