On Apr 13, 2013, at 00:50, b...@bitrate.net wrote: > On Apr 12, 2013, at 15.25, Joan Moreau <j...@grosjo.net> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am stuck with making my SSL SMTPS (port 465) works, while it was working >> fine since ever. > > others have helped with the specifics of your question, so i'll address the > philosophical aspect of it :) . while it may take some coordination to do so > if you have an existing user base using smtps, you should be using > submission+starttls instead. smtps is a long since deprecated, never > standardized protocol, which now misappropriates a port which has been > formally assigned by iana to another protocol, for quite some time.
+1. Use port 587 with STARTTLS, require encryption. HTH, Jona
