Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:01:08PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
I got confused because most other software refers to STARTTLS as just 'TLS'.
Can you please provide a reference to that? STARTTLS is a very specific
Thunderbird - Account Settings - Server Settings
If you select SSL, the port defaults to 993.
If you select TLS, the port detaults to 143 (so that would be STARTTLS,
not plain TLS on port 993).
KMail - Modify Account - Security - Check what the server supports
If I stop the daemon on port 993, it still detects Encryption None and
TLS but not SSL. So again that would be STARTTLS.
way to negotiate TLS'd connections, and should never be abbreviated to
'TLS'. STARTTLS is the encryption negotiation support in a protocol, to
negiotiate switching from plain to TLS, the 'START' bit is very
significant.
I really doubt 'most' software confuses STARTTLS with TLS this way, and
where it does, it should be fixed.
--Jeroen
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