On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 23:13, Soren Harward wrote: > Michael Torrie wrote: > > As I thought about it, my guess is that evolution is trying to secure > > the connection (which email.byu.edu does *not* support) whereas Mozilla > > is probably defaulting to no encryption or TLS. Try configuring > > Evolution to not secure the connection using SSL or TLS. > > Wait, TLS (Transport Layer Security) is a form of encryption. It's not > SSL, but if BYU's mail server doesn't support encryption at all, you > won't be able to use TLS with it. If you're looking for an acronym to > describe SMTP authentication, then you want SASL (simple authentication > security layer). That's what BYU's mail servers speak.
Actually, TLS is SSL, kind of. It's basically the latest version of SSL, just renamed. What version of Evolution? Some older versions handle SSL connections differently for outgoing mail. There are two types - fully SSL encrypted (on port 465, I think), and SSLSTART, which is on port 25. With the latter, it starts the SSL session after the connection is made, while with the former, the SSL connection is used from the start. If Evolution is attempting to connect to port 465, and BYU's email servers aren't listening there, then it might not ever be able to connect. Hope this helps, I'm kinda coming in with only the tail bit of the conversation here... Steve ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
