At 05:17 PM 1/8/2003, Randall Gellens wrote:
It's even wierder:At 7:46 AM +0000 12/19/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hello !
Tried to set up qpopper with tls support on a (suse)linuxbox, but get strange errors ...
here the config:
Maybe some of you can help.
/etc/qpopper.config
set tls-support = stls
My understanding is that OE does not support STLS, but requires alternate-port behavior. You might try using a different client. You can also set the pop3s port to alternate-port, and set port 110 to STLS.Client is a outlook express 5.5 (just had nothing else ..)
OE supports STLS on SMTP. However, it ONLY supports it on SMTP if you're using port 25. If you change to port 587 (Submission) or any other port, OE assumes you're running in "alternate port" mode and thinks TLS should start right away and not be negotiated. On the POP side, they don't support STLS at all.
What's so wierd is they clearly COULD do the right thing with a very little amount of effort, since they have all the code pieces to do everything. Too bad they seem unable or unwilling to do the right thing.
If you want to use TLS with OE, you have to set up a second instance on port 995, set it for "alternate-port" mode and that'll work.
