:date: 2014-04-20 20:22

.. index:: linux, tech, sendmail, email

Sendmail bug
============
While working on this little script (:ref:`monitoring`) I ran into a bug from 2012, which was easy to fix as well.

When running the sendemail command in order to send a mail (that's what it says, right?), I got an error:

.. code:: bash

   sendEmail -f xxx@example.com -t recipient@example.com -u Test -m 'This is a test' -s smtp.example.com:587 -xu xxx_user -xp xxx_pw -o tls=yes
   sendemail: invalid SSL_version specified at /usr/share/perl5/IO/Socket/SSL.pm

This is mentioned in `this <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679911>`_ bug-report. And the solution is as listed quite simple:

Replace

.. code:: bash

   m{^(!?)(?:(SSL(?:v2|v3|v23|v2/3))|(TLSv1[12]?))$}i 

with

.. code:: bash

   m{^(!?)(?:(SSL(?:v2|v3|v23|v2/3))|(TLSv1[12]?))}i

In the mentioned file. The line number is not the one for the regex. Searching for *TLSv1* matched the regex in line 1602 in my case.


**Update:**  

After doing this little change experienced some problemsm with the Perl Module *LWP::UserAgent* and connecting throug HTTPS.

.. code::

   Error: 500 Can't connect to example.com:443

After some digging and enabling SSH debugging in perl through

.. code::

   use IO::Socket::SSL qw(debug3);

I found `this site <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18250413/lwp-refuses-to-connect-via-https>`_ pointing me into the right direction:

Reinstalling the Perl Module *IO::Socket::SSL* via CPAN resolved the issue here:

.. code:: bash

   $ CPAN
   install IO::Socket::SSL