On 7/10/2009, Steffen Kaiser (skdove...@smail.inf.fh-brs.de) wrote: > Well, I do not see it like that, moreover because the STARTLS is not > essentially better than IMAP-over-SSL. At least one should be able to > submit the domain/host the client wants to connect to, in order to > enable virtual IMAP/SMTP/... hosting.
Hmmm... not sure what your comment re: virtual hosting has to do with STARTTLS vs IMAPS... I checked though and it doesn't appear that port 993 for IMAPS is deprecated - at least not like 465 is deprecated for SMTPS... >From the http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers: ... urd 465/tcp URL Rendesvous Directory for SSM igmpv3lite 465/udp IGMP over UDP for SSM ... imaps 993/tcp imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL imaps 993/udp imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL -- Best regards, Charles
