Sendmail: TLS handshake failed

if you find TLS handshake errors in your sendmail like this:

May 10 15:36:17 mail sm-mta[28953]: u4A8Maoa020509: to=<***@domain.it>, ctladdr=<***@domain.com> (1501/2000), delay=05:13:39, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=1051530, relay=aserver.domain.it. [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 403 4.7.0 TLS handshake failed.

check the configs, if defined:

_my_hostname.mc

define(`CERT_DIR’, `/etc/mail/certs’)dnl
define(`confDH_PARAMETERS’, `CERT_DIR/dh.param’)dnl

suppose your CERT_DIR is “/etc/mail/certs”:

cd /etc/mail/certs
openssl dhparam -out dh.param 2048
cd /etc/mail && make stop && make start

We can use a key len of 4096 too, but it is longer to generate and adds a lot of complexity.
So for me 2048 it good enough.

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