From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: A few basic nnimap problems
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:08:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp7ft2oj.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3lj6jm5b4.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> writes:
>>> I think imaps is probably more popular these days than imap + starttls.
>>
>> really? Anyway, I still expect an imap client to connect to the imap
>> port by default. Just as I expect my browser to connect to port 80 by
>> default, although 443 might become more popular over time.
> I expect my mail client to default to using whatever is the most likely
> default, and not worry my little head about port numbers and other rilly
> technical stuff.
I expect imap to mean imap and imaps to mean imaps, the way
/etc/services meant them to do.
All other clients I have tried configuring have had imap config starting
out with port 143 as the default, and switching over to 993 if the
checkbox for use secure connection is ticked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-30 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-30 17:03 Bjørn Mork
2010-09-30 17:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 18:04 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-09-30 18:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-30 20:08 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2010-09-30 20:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-01 11:17 ` Bjørn Mork
2010-10-01 12:36 ` Daniel Pittman
2010-10-01 17:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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