SSL problem... SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol

[Paul Rubin]

"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:
> martin at 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.