On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:55, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > uh, that's exactly how it was explained that it would do. Ok; sorry maybe I understood you wrongly.
But still, you can't use this trick to force the use of STARTTLS first, since talking SMTP-S over a STARTTLS channel will hung the SMTP session forever, thus locking your outbox folder until you manually delete the mail to be sent. I've just tried, and if I force the port number, my SMTP session hung forever. Regards, Vincent. > 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 -- 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
