[Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

Kyle Wheeler kyle-dovecot at memoryhole.net
Wed Nov 14 21:35:07 EET 2007


On Wednesday, November 14 at 09:15 PM, quoth Timo Sirainen:
>On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:29 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>> On Wednesday, November 14 at 11:51 AM, quoth Ed W:
>> > Is TLS always performed BEFORE auth with generally available POP/IMAP 
>> > clients?
>..
>> Technically, there's nothing in the IMAP spec that forbids doing it 
>> the other way around,
>
>Actually there is :) STARTTLS is a valid command only in
>non-authenticated state.

Ah! My mistake. That's what I get for not paying close enough 
attention. :)

~Kyle
-- 
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, 
and wrong.
                                                       -- H. L. Mencken
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