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Re: TLS negotiation in mutt



On Fri, 11 Oct 2013, Veljko wrote:
> "gnutls handshake: the diffie-helman prime sent by the server is not
> acceptable (not long enough)

Check option ssl_min_dh_prime_bits for the config file .muttrc.  It is
listed in the muttrc(5) manpage.  It might help you.

> Does anyone have some idea why this is happening and how can I fix this so I
> can send emails?

Well, the correct fix is to get that server to switch to a secure TLS
certificate (i.e. they'll need a new one with a much larger key size).

Anyway, look at this:
http://gnutls.org/manual/html_node/Selecting-cryptographic-key-sizes.html

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