Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.5 SMTPS / STARTTLS question

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

> > out of curiosity, what do other mail clients do (well, ones that support
> > both methods of using SSL)? Do they connect to 25 first and try
> > STARTTLS? or port 465?
>
> I don't know exactly; However I've no problem with Outlook / Mozilla
> users. The only problem I noticed was with Evolution; but both Mozilla /
> Outlook gives you the opportunity to choose a port number for SMTP, so I
> suppose they choose what method to use depending on the port number.

Evolution lets you do this too... you could specify "servername:25" for
the hostname, although I'm not sure exactly how it will behave in this
case. It might try to first do SMTPS on port 25, fail, and then try
SMTP+STARTTLS.

-- Dan