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

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