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wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

> > ssl.el does not do STARTTLS.
> > 
> > There is a STARTTLS implementation in elisp/C [1] by Daiki Ueno that work
> > with IMAP, if you want I could make an attempt to make it work for SMTP
> > too.
> 
> Hrm - looks pretty cool.  I'll have to see if we can merge ssl.el and that
> together.

It's my understanding that TLS supercedes SSL, so perhaps it's easiest
just to make sure that starttls.el understands SSL too, and only use
starttls.el.  It's not unlikely that starttls.c already does support
SSL, since it uses OpenSSL.