[lug] help with mail logs

[Dan Ferris]

Your mail server is relaying using TLS, and their cert fails 
verification, it's probably a self signed cert.

Ryan Wheaton wrote:
> Good morning all.
> 
> I was perusing the logs on one of my list servers, and I came across the 
> following entries:
> 
> STARTTLS=client, relay=mx1c1.megamailservers.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, 
> verify=FAIL, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256: 1 Time(s)
>    STARTTLS=client, relay=webmail.vanion.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, 
> verify=FAIL, cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA, bits=168/168: 1 Time(s)
>    STARTTLS=client, relay=mail.randomwalk.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, 
> verify=FAIL, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256: 1 Time(s)
>    STARTTLS=client, relay=davegrover.com., version=TLSv1/SSLv3, 
> verify=FAIL, cipher=AES256-SHA, bits=256/256: 1 Time(s)
> 
> 
> there are people from the randomwalk.com and davegrover.com that are 
> members of lists on the box.  Does this mean that the messages did not 
> reach them?  Or is it their mail servers responding, probing me to see 
> if I'm an open relay?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -rtw
> 
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