On Fri, 09 Oct 14:53, Noah Sheppard wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:36:28PM +0200, J. Prendick wrote: > > Since a few days I've got a problem with my Arcor mail-account. I can't > > connect anymore and mutt keeps telling me "A TLS packet with unexpected > > length was received.". I didn't change my mutt-setup nor the mutt-version > > (which by the way is "Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17)"). > On my system at least (Gentoo Linux amd64 arch), mutt depends on gnutls. > Did you perhaps update gnutls recently? > > > I'm afraid it's a mutt-related problem, for e.g. Sylpheed works just > > fine (using STARTTLS as well). The line "STARTTLS unavailable" in the > > above output seems a bit strange to me, as Sylpheed works with STARTTLS > > and even setting "ssl_starttls=no" in mutt doesn't change anything. > On my system, sylpheed depends on openssl instead of gnutls, so that would > explain sylpheed working and not mutt. > > -- > Noah Sheppard > Assistant Computer Resource Manager > Taylor University CSE Department > nshep...@cse.taylor.edu >
Just checked that: the last update of gnutls is almost two month ago - unfortunately thats not the reason. Best regards, J. Prendick
