[darcs-users] Re: mailing list saga

[Thomas Hühn]

David Roundy wrote:

> I'm sorry to bombard you with news about my miserable server woes, but I
> think now that the mailing lists are fixed.  It turns out that my server
> was running out of entropy, and eventually hit absolute zero, at which
> point messages sent to remote servers that support tls were hanging waiting
> for random bits to create their keys.  I've just disabled tls on sent

Oh, let me guess... Debian and Exim?

A workaround can be found at
http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4KnownBugsInSarge, though I decided to
just compile Exim myself and have it linked against openssl.

Thomas