On Thursday, December 16, 2010 08:15:42 pm David Woodhouse wrote: > Looks much better; thanks. One more nitpick... > > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 18:15 +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > > + /* this is the URL for your mailserver - you can also use an > > smtps:// URL + * here */ > > There's no such thing as smtps://. There was a rash of people doing a > non-standard thing on port 465 a few years ago, I'm going to argue this.
Port 465 is what libcurl implements as smtps://. I agree that it isn't standardised, but saying "no such thing" is equivalent to arguing that there is no such thing as SSLv3. > but the standard way to > do it is to connect in the clear, issue the STARTTLS command, and then > upgrade to TLS. > Giving an example of how you do *that* would be a more useful thing to > do in a comment. Bonus points for mentioning that you would hopefully > expect this to be connecting to port 587 rather than port 25 (RFC4409). I'll take a look. I think this could be better placed in a separate example though. Brad ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
