[libre-riscv-dev] libre-soc exim4 wouldn't talk to gmail for 2-3 days

[Cole Poirier]

On Jun 18 2020, at 6:56 pm, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:

> sigh.
> 
> you may have noticed that no messages came through the list, for a
> couple of days.  this was because we upgraded libssl1.1 because we
> installed apache2.
> 
> inexplicably - for absolutely no good reason whatsoever - exim4
> suddenly decided it wasn't going to talk to gmail.  or to nlnet.nl.
> or half a dozen other email servers across the internet.
> 
> the solution:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/exim-users@exim.org/msg53129.html
> 
> upgrade exim4-daemon-heavy.
> 
> there is no good reason why this should even have been necessary.
> however at least things are now functional.

Thanks for explaining what happended, this really threw me for a loop
yesterday - recieving zero emails from the list since 5pm the day
before, then recieving *50* all at once at 6ish last night - glad
everything is back to normal today :)

Cole