Sendmail Error: STARTTLS: read error=generic SSL error (0)

[Donald Tyler]

Gerry Doris wrote:

>>Hi,
>>
>>I am getting a hundreds of log entries saying:
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>>    STARTTLS: read error=generic SSL error (0)
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>>and I am not sure why. I did some research and found recommendations of
>>putting the line:
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>>    define(`confENVDEF', `-D_FFR_DEAL_WITH_ERROR_SSL')
>>
>>in my M4 file, but upon doing that and rebuilding/restarting, I still
>>get the log entries.
>>
>>Can anyone explain to me exactly what this error message means and what
>>I need to do to fix it? (Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I am
>>still very much a sendmail noob).
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>>Donald Tyler
>>    
>>
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>I did a google and it mentioned the following to fix the error...
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>See devtools/README for the correct syntax, it's
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>APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF', `-D_FFR_DEAL_WITH_ERROR_SSL')
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>Please see www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/sm-812.html
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Thanks for the reply.

That looks like it requires a recompile. Sadly thats considerably above 
my current skill level =0(

Is there no other way to fix it?