Comment 11 for bug 415076

I also can confirm the problem. This is the excerpt from /var/log/daemon.log:

Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn'...
Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 6975
Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' just appeared, activating connections
Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm nm-openvpn[6978]: OpenVPN 2.1_rc19 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] built on Oct 13 2009
Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'MPIP' (Connect) reply received.
Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm nm-openvpn[6978]: WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm nm-openvpn[6978]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm nm-openvpn[6978]: /usr/bin/openssl-vulnkey -q -b 1024 -m <modulus omitted>
Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm nm-openvpn[6978]: LZO compression initialized
Nov 20 09:29:35 qwghlm nm-openvpn[6978]: Attempting to establish TCP connection with 194.95.63.248:143 [nonblock]
Nov 20 09:29:45 qwghlm nm-openvpn[6978]: TCP: connect to 194.95.63.248:143 failed, will try again in 5 seconds: Connection timed out
Nov 20 09:30:00 qwghlm nm-openvpn[6978]: TCP: connect to 194.95.63.248:143 failed, will try again in 5 seconds: Connection timed out
Nov 20 09:30:07 qwghlm wpa_supplicant[785]: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
Nov 20 09:30:15 qwghlm NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'MPIP' (IP Config Get) timeout exceeded.
Nov 20 09:30:15 qwghlm nm-openvpn[6978]: SIGTERM[hard,init_instance] received, process exiting