Marc Sherman wrote: > Marc Sherman wrote: > >>W B Hacker wrote: >> >>>Ancient history now. Like it or not, we should move on and use 587. >> >>That's all well and good, Bill, and if you simply advised people not to >>open port 465 at all, I wouldn't reply. It's your repeated advise to >>people to open 465 for unencrypted/STARTTLS usage, against all >>established historical practice, to which I object. > > > Whoops, I guess I owe Bill a bit of an apology --
Accepted, thanks. > I was mis-remembering > history here. It's actually your repeated use of tls_on_connect on port > 587 that so aggravates me. 'Repeated use' is not and was not a 'RECOMMENDATION'. An illustration, observation, or comment on special-case utility is not a 'recommendation' either. > You're welcome to do whatever you want on > your own server, but please do not advise others to configure > tls_on_connect on port 587 on this list without clearly noting that you > are doing something non-standard and against common practice. > I haven't done so, and do not plan to start. It might irritate the pedantic. > Anyway, sorry about the mixup. > > - Marc > Let's just stick with current IANA/IETF recommendations and leave history where it belongs. Best, 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/
