Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.4.5 SMTPS / STARTTLS question

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

uh, that's exactly how it was explained that it would do.

Jeff

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:18, Vincent Jaussaud wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 17:37, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > yea, I'm pretty sure that is how it would attempt to connect.
> Nope; if you put the port number in; it'll try to negociate SMTP-S with
> the remote MTA, over port 25, even if this one talks only STARTTLS.
>
> The result is that it will hung the SMTP session; since SMTP-S
> initialise the SSL handshake directly after opening the socket; while
> STARTTLS wait after the greetings dialog has been made (in plain text).
> So basically, you'll try to talk SSL to a peer which expect plain text
> input at first.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent.
>
> > Jeff
> >
> > > -- Dan
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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