Outlook Express and STARTTLS

Gedalya gedalya at gedalya.net
Fri Nov 21 20:38:52 UTC 2014


On 11/21/2014 03:32 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> 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.
That's just implicit TLS for SMTP submission, instead of 587. OE needs that.



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