On 11.02.18 20:26, Harald Koch wrote:
Is this change in long-standing opinion of the IETF only because existing
implementations so often ignore STARTTLS, or is there actually a security
issue with STARTTLS (instead of implicit TLS)?

I guess it's about firewalls - you can run service without TLS on 587
unnoticed (e.g. autnentication accepted without it).
you can't on 465 (implicit TLS fails)
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