[gnutls-help] GNUTLS_E_PREMATURE_TERMINATION error

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 17:10 +0000, Polina Abramov wrote:
> Hi All,
> I need help with GNUTLS_E_PREMATURE_TERMINATION error code that is
> returned by gnutls_record_recv() function.
> I have a simple smtp client that all it does is sending emails.  When
> I use gmail or hotmail smtp servers I keep getting
> GNUTLS_E_PREMATURE_TERMINATION and I can’t figure out what causes it.
> I don’t get this error with yahoo smtp server.

Hello,
 The peer has terminated the TLS session using a TCP RST (i.e., called
close()). Since gnutls cannot distinguish that termination from an
attacker terminating the session it warns you with this error code.

regards,
Nikos