uh, that's exactly how it was explained that it would do. Jeff
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:18, Vincent Jaussaud wrote: > 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 -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
