John W. Baxter wrote: > On 5/12/06 3:08 PM, "W B Hacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Legacy/unofficial smpts port 465 (SSL) 'went away' per >>IETF/ICANN re-assignment to Cisco for other use WEF February >>2006, IIRC. > > > 465 for smtps may have gone away, but people using Microsoft systems will > still be attempting it for a decade or more. > > Does anyone here know whether Microsoft fixed this for Vista (in Outlook and > Microsoft Mail which seems to be Outlook Express' new name? If not, make > that two decades. > > --John (Vista-challenged--my laptop's BIOS isn't really XP compatible: I > have little or no hope [or desire] for Vista. Longwait: the longer the > wait the better.) > > >
True enuf .. but that doesn't necessarily mean 465 needs to continue to be in *Exim* defaults. Easy enough to have Exim use alternate/extra ports (or not) w/o altering any authenticator code. Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
