Forgive me if I've been asleep at the switch on the SSL problem and it's already been figured out, but....could this be what the prob is?

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Pine-info] "incomplete SecBuffer exceeds maximum buffer size" ? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:47:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Hubert <hubert@washington.edu> Organization: Univ of Washington; UW Technology; Seattle To: Pine Forum <pine-info@u.washington.edu> References: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0904261823300.-1877079@zuluone>

There is a feature called quell-ssl-largeblocks that addresses this. In alpine it is called "Prevent SSL Largeblocks". The help text in alpine says

              FEATURE: Prevent SSL Largeblocks

PC-Alpine only.

This feature changes the behavior of fetching messages and attachments so that the message data is fetched in chunks no larger than 12K bytes. This works around a bug in Microsoft's SSL/TLS support. Some versions of Microsoft SSL are not able to read full-sized (16K) SSL/TLS packets. Some servers will send such packets and this will cause PC-Alpine to crash with the error

      incomplete SecBuffer exceeds maximum buffer size

Microsoft is aware of the problem and has developed a hotfix for it, it is discussed in article 300562 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

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