Am 26.02.2013 22:19, schrieb Charles Marcus: > On 2013-02-26 3:59 PM, Ben Morrow <b...@morrow.me.uk> wrote: >> At 3PM -0500 on 26/02/13 you (Charles Marcus) wrote: >>> Now the only other question is, again already being contemplated by Timo >>> apparently, why the config file uses SSL... >> Why not? > > Because, as has been pointed out, TLS is the 'new', and SSL is the 'old'?
and you still do not understand that it is the same >>> Timo, what I would suggest is allow the use of ssl in the config file >>> for backwards compat, but change future versions to use TLS... > >> I would be against that idea. > > My turn... why? because it is a useless change which makes code complexer and more error proof >>> And I always choose (chose - from now on I'll choose TLS) 'SSL Always', >>> so shouldn't these connections show 'SSL' instead of TLS, since I'm >>> basically forcing my phone to SSL? > >> I suspect the difference is that the 'SSL' options use imap-over-SSL on >> port 993 while the 'TLS' options use STARTTLS over port 143. > > Don't know how you or Reindl came to that conclusion, because the ports are > specified separately. because if you would spend 10 seconds of your time with a default tunderbird setup you would see that STARTTLS is 143 and TLS/SSL is 993 because the port switchs with the dropdown change > So, I can specify port 993, and TLS. and if you specify STARTTLS on port 993 it would not work also SSL/TLS without STARTTLS on 143 would not work why? because 143 is STARTTLS (google) and 993 is SSL the same for SMTP STARTTLS: 25 or 587 (submission) SSL/TLS: 465 (deprecated and NOT STARTTLS) > Well, you're obviously right about it being confusing, and that in and of > itself is not a good thing... > Oh well, whatever, it isn't that big a deal... and that is why ANY touching of server source code is not worth
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