On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:36:32 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2012, Camaleón wrote: >> SMTPS (and SMTP over SSL/TLS) is standarized as always has been, what > > Actually, at least on port 465, it is deprecated with prejudice as it > has been assigned to something else.
Yes, but still needed under to cope with some corner circumstances (e.g., to support old MUAs). >> happens is that it was updated to use starttls extension and the older >> RFC was deprecated (but still used in some hosts). > > It is widely used because of some übercrappy MUAs[1] that screw up when > told to do STARTTLS over port 587, AND because something-over-SSL is > friendly to dumb[2] hardware TLS endpoint gateways, while STARTTLS is > not (requires an application-level proxy running on the TLS gateway). Yup, exactly ;-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jtcdc9$s8h$1...@dough.gmane.org
