What makes you think I never did any research? https://medium.com/@Viruthagiri/smtp-ports-25-vs-587-vs-465-de1046f57636
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 10:10 PM James Downs <e...@egon.cc> wrote: > > On Jan 12, 2019, at 08:14, Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan <g...@dombox.org> > wrote: > > > My solution is intended for clients. A client should decide whether to > transmit mails in clear text or not. > > You should spend some time doing research by reading RFCs, and doing a > little searching on the internet. Your proposal, would, canonically be > called SMTPS. > > If you put that into a search engine, you'll find not only is it > deprecated, but has an assigned port number of 465. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTPS > > -- Best Regards, Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan Dombox, Inc.