On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 17:37, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > > 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. > Nope; if you put the port number in; it'll try to negociate SMTP-S with the remote MTA, over port 25, even if this one talks only STARTTLS.
The result is that it will hung the SMTP session; since SMTP-S initialise the SSL handshake directly after opening the socket; while STARTTLS wait after the greetings dialog has been made (in plain text). So basically, you'll try to talk SSL to a peer which expect plain text input at first. Regards, Vincent. > Jeff > > > > > -- Dan > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Vincent Jaussaud Kelkoo.com Security Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -- President Thomas Jefferson. 1743-1826 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
