Am 26.02.2013 22:19, schrieb Charles Marcus:
On 2013-02-26 3:59 PM, Ben Morrow <ben@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