On Wed, 12 May 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:56:08AM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> 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. I'm not, my users start the discussion and I have to finish it. Anyhow, I was not complaining, it was a legitimate question. In fact just today I changed our site to do plain SMTP+TLS on port 465, becasue SSL was giving us so much trouble with dropped connections. > 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. I never suggested that. MUAs, however, can deliver to any port using TLS. >> 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. Because people want it? I'm not arguing about the superiority of TLS over SSL here, only noting Gnus and Mozilla features. Ted
