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

[Andrew McGlashan]

Hi Simon,

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Thanks for prompt feedback, Andrew!

You are most welcome.

> My reading from this is that we can close the IM related part of this
> bug report.

Perhaps.

> There is clearly still some problem between IM and Exim, but that
> could be the topic for another report?  It would be interesting if
> you could identify whether it is related to exim (i.e., does it
> happen with sendmail too?)  or gnutls (i.e., does it happen if exim4
> is linked with openssl?).

Part of the problem relates to my server having a strict requirement to use 
SSL with SMTP Auth.  Popping email using SSL on port 995 works fine using 
qpopper.  Gmail works fine with SSL on port 465.  So the combination of 
these observations points to an Exim issue... from what I can tell. 
Although Outlook Express works fine with both my server and a gmail one both 
using SSL over port 465.  If Exim can use whatever qpopper is using for the 
SSL setup, then that would probably solve the problem.

> Anyway, to reduce the complexity of this bug report, I think it would
> be very good, if you still wish to debug this, to report the problem
> anew, for the component you think is causing the problem.  It might
> even be a IM bug..

IM are useless in terms of support.  Often they say that they were getting a 
zero length email and to use plain text.  Well I ONLY use plain text and 
none of the responses were zero bytes in length.  So their support is broken 
too.

IM adds so much garbage into the Windows registry that I did a restore to an 
older image to get rid of it properly -- did some fresh tests with a new 
install which was fruitless and then restored my older image again.

Kind Regards
AndrewM

Andrew McGlashan
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