Unknown sendmail log entry error

robeb · 05-07-2003, 01:53 PM

In my daily log checks I keep finding this entry:

sendmail[31151]: STARTTLS=client, relay=[127.0.0.1], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA, bits=168/168

It appears about every 5 minutes. I am interested in finding out the cause of this error. I do not use sendmail, however, I have a Communigate Pro mail server that use a sendmail binary file. Can anyone tell me where else I might be able to find more information about this on my box (i.e. logs, cron jobs, etc) ?

td3201 · 05-07-2003, 03:53 PM

hrm...is it five minutes on the money? i would check your cron jobs, do you have a proggie that checks for status information on sendmail, like netsaint (nagios)?

robeb · 05-10-2003, 08:01 PM

Yes, they appear every 5 minutes on the money. Can you elaborate more on the sendmail status checking?

td3201 · 05-10-2003, 08:10 PM

My thinking on the status checking is usually these programs will open a socket on port 25 to your server and that will of course leave you some log entries....

markus1982 · 05-11-2003, 01:14 AM

Quote:

sendmail[31151]: STARTTLS=client, relay=[127.0.0.1], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA, bits=168/168

Well a SSL/TLS connection is started and the certificate is invalid so the request failed.

robeb · 06-26-2003, 05:23 PM

Yeah...that makes sense. But, how would you go about determining why sendmail is trying to send an encypted message relayed through the localhost. That's what I can't figure out.

I guess it's not that big of deal...but stuff like that bugs me after I while if I don't know the cause of the error.