On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:11:25PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I am not talking about submission which I guess is what the smtps > option is for and I know GPG is the best method and I also know that > spamd causes plain text transmissions. > > With STARTTLS I believe there is a clear text race where an attacker can > create a response stating STARTTLS is unsupported resulting in > cleartext transmission which I believe would not be the case for smtps. >
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about :-/ > So is there any point in using secure? I guess both can't be run on > port 25 and I guess no-one would use SMTPS if it was running on port > 25 but thought I would ask if anyone knew of an RFC of SMTPS on another > port or replacing STARTTLS or any other tips about this. > Same here. Can you elaborate what is exactly your concern ? -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
