On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:31, Dan Winship wrote: > > > out of curiosity, what do other mail clients do (well, ones that support > > > both methods of using SSL)? Do they connect to 25 first and try > > > STARTTLS? or port 465? > > > > I don't know exactly; However I've no problem with Outlook / Mozilla > > users. The only problem I noticed was with Evolution; but both Mozilla / > > Outlook gives you the opportunity to choose a port number for SMTP, so I > > suppose they choose what method to use depending on the port number. > > Evolution lets you do this too... you could specify "servername:25" for > the hostname, although I'm not sure exactly how it will behave in this > case. It might try to first do SMTPS on port 25, fail, and then try > SMTP+STARTTLS.
yea, I'm pretty sure that is how it would attempt to connect. Jeff > > -- Dan > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
