Stefano's World

I’ve just spent a few hours brain-haemorrhaging over why my new Postfix server wasn’t allowing me to enter “RCPT TO:” over a STARTTLS connection. Instead it would renegotiate the TLS.

Eventually I found an e-mail by Wietse Venema saying:

Victor Duchovni:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:31:12PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: 
> > RCPT TO:<postmaster>
> > RENEGOTIATING
>
> You got bit by the "s_client" "R" feature... try "rcpt to:" lower case,
> then it hangs up.

What utter brain damage, a non-transparent SSL client program.

Read this and be warned — we are all stupid, in the eyes of the truly mad s_client