Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

[Kyle Wheeler]

On Wednesday, November 14 at 09:15 PM, quoth Timo Sirainen:

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:29 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:

On Wednesday, November 14 at 11:51 AM, quoth Ed W:

> Is TLS always performed BEFORE auth with generally available POP/IMAP > clients?

..

Technically, there's nothing in the IMAP spec that forbids doing it the other way around,

Actually there is :) STARTTLS is a valid command only in
non-authenticated state.

~Kyle
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