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Re: [fetchmail] Fetchmail 6.1.1 can't login to a server that 5.9.14 can handle?

2002-11-25 20:50:54
Sunil Shetye <shetye(_at_)bombay(_dot_)retortsoft(_dot_)com>:
IMO, it is better to specify sslproto explicitly. Otherwise, this is
equivalent (conceptually) to trying to connect to simap port first
when protocol is imap just to have more security by default. If the
option 'ssl' is explicitly required to connect to simap port, then the
option 'sslproto tls1' too should be explicitly required to use
STARTTLS.

I think the two cases are different.  The presence of service on the
SSL port is expensive to probe for.  Probing for a working STARTTLS, on
the other hand, is cheap -- so fetchmail should automatically try to
get the best possible security.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>

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