Description of problem: When logging into Mutt I will sometimes receive an error message at the bottom of the screen: tls_socket_read(A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.) I will sometimes receive this error after logging in and working with email. After receiving this message Mutt generally crashes and I have to restart the program. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5:1.5.20-1.20090827hg605559.fc12 How reproducible: Almost always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log into Mutt 2. Wait Actual results: Receive tls socket read error Expected results: Mutt works. Additional info: The account Mutt is logging into is an IMAP account.
This looks like a gnutls problem https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?106987
I am not quite sure that it is a gnutls problem. It might be a problem with how mutt calls gnutls or how it reacts to the protocol error gnutls reports.
I've tried the steps from the savannah bug report and it really looks like the gmail pop3s doesn't terminate the connection properly that is it aborts the connection without sending the appropriate TLS shutdown packet. I do not think that mutt should crash after this error. It should probably just attempt to reconnect.
It does TRY to reconnect but just bombs out and cycles. It's more like a perpetual cycling.
Okay, so when I get the error, mutt closes the mailbox and then attempts to log back in but just hangs there. Right now it just say "Logging in..." so not really a crash so much as a hang.
You get an GNUTLS_E_UNEXPECTED_PACKET_LENGTH error from gnutls for a premature EOF (i.e. without a clean TLS shutdown).
I tried using gmail pops and imaps for a while, but I can't reproduce it. Does it happen after a longer period of idling or while reading mails? Can you try to make a backtrace when mutt is hung?
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