Bug#348046: exim4-daemon-heavy: TLS delivery attempts fail with: (gnutls_handshake): A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:29:47PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> I have just discovered this bug and it appears to be rather long term..... 
> any progress?

This will most probably not be fixed in etch.

> Some further information:
> 
> SMTP Auth issue with Incredimail using Exim, but not with Gmail...
> 
> - SSL over 465 works fine for Outlook Express;
> 
> - same machine if running Incredimail fails with msg as per this bug report.
> 
> I wonder if Incredimail uses OpenSSL?

What is Incredimail? An MTA, or a Mail service?

>   And if so, is there any way that the Exim4 can work with both
>   OpenSSL and GNUTLS?

You can recompile the packages with OpenSSL.

> Would it be safe and advisable to provide the output from the 
> gnutls-cli-debug program here?
>    gnutls-cli-debug --port 465 -v localhost -d 3

Probably not since we know that a gnutls client will work nicely with
exim.

I kind of fail to understand what you intend to do and what works and
what not.

Greetings
Marc

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