Re: IMAPS problems...

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Wed, 22 August 14:56 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 
> On 2001.08.22 14:38:31 +0100 Brian Stafford wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 August 14:14 Toralf Lund wrote:
> > 
> > > So enabling SSL in the config would mean using SSL _and_ TLS, which is
> > > fairly meaningless, right?
> > 
> > Not necessarily.  If  client and server support some common set of protocols
> > from SSLv2,3 and TLSv1, the best available will be negotiated.
> > 
> 
> Anyway, we're talking about doing SSL inside an SSL tunnel ... 

Right, I missed that bit.  Anyhow an OpenSSL based SSL tunnel will do TLS too!
No matter what, if TLS is available then use it.

But that puzzles me though.  If the server can do TLS/SSL directly, why tunnel?

Brian