Re: [courier-users] Backup can't send mails to master: sslv3 alert handshake failure

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

J. Pablo" Fernández writes:

> On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 09:38 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 
>> J. Pablo" Fernández writes:
>> 
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > I have two email servers, bach being the primary and mozart being the
>> > backup. I'm testing the backup and it doesn't work. When I inject an
>> > email in the backup I get this message[1]:
>> > 
>> > Nov 16 04:29:25 mozart courieresmtp:
>> > id=00045BCC.491FE7EE.00002012,from=<pu...@pu...>,addr=<ro...@ex...>: 500 couriertls: connect: error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure
>> 
>> What versions of Courier are you running? Make sure you're running the 
>> latest version. This is due to SSL/TLS protocol mismatch (the TLS_PROTOCOL 
>> setting). The default settings in the current version of Courier are more 
>> liberal, by default.
> 
> I'm running the latest one provided by my OS, 0.58.0.2008012. Is the
> trouble only a matter of configuration? if so, what settings are the
> problem?

The TLS_PROTOCOL setting. You'll need to try each possible value, documented 
in the comments, until you find a combination that works.

Better yet, upgrade to the current version and use the default settings.