On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Bill Janssen wrote:
> Here's a little-known fact about Apple Mail: if you select SSL support
> for IMAP, it actually will connect with SSL to the IMAP server, if and
> only if the port is set to 993. If you specify any other port to
> Apple Mail, and check the SSL checkbox, it will connect in the clear,
> and attempt to do STARTTLS. If the server doesn't, in its
> CAPABILITIES string, indicate STARTTLS, it will simply issue a LOGOUT
> and disconnect.
>
> Bill
Um, given that is arguably correct behavior what is so notable about
this? Kudos to Apple for getting that part of Apple Mail correct, now if
they'd only learn how to use IMAP SEARCH. ;()
Contrast that with Outlook's borked behavior WRT SMTP & SSL. If you
check the SSL box in the SMTP server config and leave the port set
to 25 it will try to do STARTTLS. If you set the port to -any- other
value (such as 587 for the 'MSA' port) it will try to do SSLv3 and fail.
There's no way to get it to do STARTTLS to port 587, it should only do
SSLv3 to port 465 (smtps port).
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