On 7/10/2009, Steffen Kaiser (skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de) wrote:
Well, I do not see it like that, moreover because the STARTLS is not essentially better than IMAP-over-SSL. At least one should be able to submit the domain/host the client wants to connect to, in order to enable virtual IMAP/SMTP/... hosting.
Hmmm... not sure what your comment re: virtual hosting has to do with STARTTLS vs IMAPS...
I checked though and it doesn't appear that port 993 for IMAPS is deprecated - at least not like 465 is deprecated for SMTPS...
... urd 465/tcp URL Rendesvous Directory for SSM igmpv3lite 465/udp IGMP over UDP for SSM ... imaps 993/tcp imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL imaps 993/udp imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL
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Best regards,
Charles