[Bug 105736] Re: mutt - TLS packet with unexpected length

[Russ Kine]

I am running Mutt 1.5.21 on Debian Wheezy and had the same issue.
Unfortunately, none of the advice on this page helped (including the
installation of muth-patched; I did not try recompiling mutt with
openssl, however.).

What solved it for me was setting imap_keepalive to a small enough
number.  In my muttrc, it was set to 300.  When I changed this to 10,
the packet length errors stopped!  i.e.,

set imap_keepalive = 10

Good luck,

RK

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Title:
  mutt - TLS packet with unexpected length

Status in Gnutls - GNU Transport Layer Security Library:
  Confirmed
Status in “gnutls26” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-users@mutt.org/msg32520.html

  I use mutt on Feisty (ubuntu). When connecting to gmail using pops,
  mutt connects to the server and asks my password. After I enter it, I
  see the following error message:

  tls_socket_read (A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.)

  
  I googled a bit and saw that it is GNUTLS which causes the problem and rebuilding mutt with openssl solves the problem. Is there any way other than building mutt from source?


  I have replicated this in the most current fiesty version of mutt
  (1.5.13-1ubuntu1).

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