SSL problem... SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol

[John Reese]

Morning. I've been running into an error message pertaining to SSL
that I don't understand, and I was hoping someone had some insight.
Gmail provides POP access over SSL on port 587, so I tried to use
poplib.POP_SSL, with the following results:

%python
Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:19:29)
[GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/poplib.py", line 359, in __init__
self.sslobj = socket.ssl(self.sock, self.keyfile, self.certfile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py", line 74, in ssl
return _realssl(sock, keyfile, certfile)
socket.sslerror: (1, 'error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol')
Any suggestions or insight?

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

Morning. I've been running into an error message pertaining to SSL
that I don't understand, and I was hoping someone had some insight.
Gmail provides POP access over SSL on port 587, so I tried to use
poplib.POP_SSL, with the following results: [...]
socket.sslerror: (1, 'error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol')


Any suggestions or insight?

It appears that pop.gmail.com *doesn't* provide SSL on port 587.

martin@mira:~/doc$ telnet pop.gmail.com 587
Trying 64.233.185.111...
Connected to pop.gmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mx.gmail.com ESMTP 13sm5173422wrl

This rather looks like an unencrypted SMTP connection to me. Indeed,
port 587 is the mail submission protocol.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Paul Rubin]

martin@mira:~/doc$ telnet pop.gmail.com 587
Trying 64.233.185.111...
Connected to pop.gmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mx.gmail.com ESMTP 13sm5173422wrl

This rather looks like an unencrypted SMTP connection to me. Indeed,
port 587 is the mail submission protocol.

It wants a STARTTLS command.

 

[Stephen Illingworth]

Morning. I've been running into an error message pertaining to SSL
that I don't understand, and I was hoping someone had some insight.
Gmail provides POP access over SSL on port 587, so I tried to use
poplib.POP_SSL, with the following results:
[snip]

Any suggestions or insight?

Try port 465.

 

[Stephen Illingworth]

Morning. I've been running into an error message pertaining to SSL
that I don't understand, and I was hoping someone had some insight.
Gmail provides POP access over SSL on port 587, so I tried to use
poplib.POP_SSL, with the following results:

GMail uses port 995.

 

[John Reese]

GMail uses port 995.

Yeah. I misread the instructions. I apologize for being an idiot.
It works just fine on port 995.