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
