[PLUG] Strange Exim-TLS issue

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

Hello all,

I am having a very strange problem with exim-tls (3.35-3, debian 3.0).
I have it set up to advertise TLS to everyone, and only relay with auth.
Almost all my boxes (4 linux, 2 WinXP, 1 Win98) can send mail through,
using TLS.  One laptop (WinXP) cannot use TLS, though.  It can relay
just fine, using auth, but if it tries to starttls, it gets the error
message "command not supported" or so - don't have the error message or
the laptop in front of me.

Now this is the odd thing.  This laptop gets it's internet access from
behind a gateway, and the gateway negotiates tls just fine.  That means
I didn't somehow exclude this IP from the tls settings in exim.conf.
Also, a straight telnet session to port 25 of the mail server also fails
to starttls, but only apparently from this laptop.

Could it be some problem of WinXP sending ^M when exim is wanting \n or
something?  That's the only thing I can think of at this point.  The
factor pointing against this is that other WinXP boxes can successfully
negotiate starttls just fine, but then, I'm not unwilling to believe
that semi-random things happen differently on different WinXP boxes :)

Puzzled, and hoping somebody has seen this behavior before,
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