On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:56:08AM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK SMTP over SSL should no longer be used because it is no longer
> > a "valid standard". At least the IETF thinks that all should use
> > STARTTLS instead of smtp over ssl. Btw. for MTA only STARTTLS will
> > be used.
> 
> Port 25 is blocked by some ISPs.  Are we supposed to run plain SMTP
> on port 465?
> 

Please don't start a discussion over braindead ISPs. Just keep in mind
that no MTA will try to deliver to port 465 and just hacking one MTA to do
that will not help you.

> > You should change the question. Which MUA does support SMTP over SSL
> > only.  Because most MUA that have a ssl knob do STARTTLS.  Mail.app,
> > Eudora, Mozilla are the ones I know that can do STARTTLS.
> 
> Mozilla 1.6 says for encryption "none, TLS if available, TLS, SSL"
> clearly separating SSL from STARTTLS as distinct possibilities.
> Mozilla 1.5 and earlier had a different dialog which I don't recall.
> 
> Gnus can do SMTP over SSL, but it's done through a stunnel hack IIRC.
> 

Nice but you mentioned it can do STARTTLS so why bother with that hack.

-- 
:wq Claudio

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