[Dovecot] STARTTLS problem

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 22:47 +0100, Lucas -LandM- wrote:
> Same error:
> gnutls-cli --starttls -p 143 ip
> Resolving 'ip'...
> Connecting to 'ip:143'...
> 
> - Simple Client Mode:
> 
> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE 
> IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=CRAM-MD5] Dovecot ready.
> 9 STARTTLS
> 9 OK Begin TLS negotiation now.
> 
> *** Starting TLS handshake
> *** Fatal error: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
> *** Handshake has failed

Try connecting from localhost. Maybe you have a broken proxy/firewall in
the middle.