What imap ssl/auth settings work best with MS Outlook?

Benny Pedersen me at junc.eu
Fri Apr 30 21:52:43 EEST 2021


On 2021-04-30 09:20, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> Citeren "@lbutlr" <kremels at kreme.com>:
> 
>> When you enter your email address, it would be TRIVIAL to check the  
>> MX records for the domain and fill those in for the SMTP and IMAP  
>> servers, allowing users to more easily add (if needed) the domain  
>> prefix.
>> 
>> No one does this.
> 
> Rightfully so. There is absolutely no guarantee that the server on the
>  inbound (MX) record also handles outbound and/or IMAP. In many cases,
>  these will be different systems.

tell that to ovh, amazon, google, dreamhost, microsoft that have client 
mta that belive in open ports to custommer only services, i just say go 
away in iptables



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