Re: [Evolution] working tls support?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

"use secure connection always" isn't tls, it is ssl.

use "whenever possible", it will use tls.

I tried to fix this ages ago, to say what it actually meant, but for
some unexplained reason it was seen as 'confusing to users' so was
reverted.


On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 00:13 +0200, Igor Testen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> How far is the TLS support in Evolution at this stage? My SMTP server
> supports TLS authentication on port 25. i.e. EHLO will return STARTTLS.
>
> Somehow though, Evolution 2.2.3 (on gentoo) defaults to port 465 when
> using the "use secure connection: always". In addition, if I manually set
> the port like this: "host: mail.myhost.com:25" (domain name changed here,
> but correctly set in my mail client), Evolution seems to no longer try to
> connect to port 465, but authentication stil doesn't work (Check for
> supported authentication types runs on until manually cancelled).
>
> I've looked around this list and several newsgroups, but most posts
> regarding TLS refer to versions of Evolution 1.x. So is this supposed to
> work, or is it planned for future releases?
>
> Thanks. Igor
>
>
>
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