Outlook Express and STARTTLS

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Nov 21 20:32:25 UTC 2014


On 11/21/2014 03:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 21.11.2014 um 20:59 schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>> I have one user that uses Outlook Express.   Not only do I not use it, I
>> don't have any systems here that can easily use it.  I bit of a 
>> challenge.
>>
>> I am strictly enforcing STARTTLS or TLS for SMTP/POP3/IMAP connections.
>>
>> SO far a google search has not shown me how to configure this for a
>> user.  Anyone have a pointer to instructions so I can talk the person
>> through the changes?
>
> it can't as well as Outlook for POP3/IMAP
> you need 993/995 *without* STARTTLS - period
>
> and that's why a sane mailserver needs to support 110,143,993,995,587 
> *and* 465 to support every client, that won't change in the near future
>
I missed 465; got the rest.  Will have to look THAT one up.  Thanks for 
the tip, Harald.




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