On 2007-05-12 at 10:02 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > I'm seeing a few of these in the log. What does it mean? > > SSL_Write error 5
It helps if you get the error message correct, including case, so that it's easier to find it; I suddenly thought of past indicators of accuracy and switched to a case-insensitive grep. That message means that the call to OpenSSL's SSL_write() failed and that the error code subsequently extracted from OpenSSL was unusual enough that it wasn't specially handled in the Exim code. Exim reports what the error code was. In this case, assuming that the error codes haven't been significantly changed between whichever version of OpenSSL you have and the version I have (0.9.8d), error code 5 means SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL, so there was an underlying system call problem. Exim doesn't go into it any deeper. You'd need to provide more details, such as context, instead of just that to know what's going on. I suspect that something is dropping the TCP connection abruptly without doing a TLS shutdown; but without knowing the context there's no way to know that; I give it just over even odds that it is this cause. -Phil -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
