From: You Wu <youwu@inventati.org>
To: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: smtp 587 always fails to send email
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:19:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737ih4fqb.fsf@inventati.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmxmdk8q.fsf@koldfront.dk> ("Adam \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Sj\=C3\=B8gren\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?\=22's\?\= message of "Fri, 11 Nov 2016 18:00:53 +0100")
asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:
> You writes:
>
>> Concerning security level, which one is better? 587 on `starttls'
>> or 465 on `ssl'?
>
> Both are fine, if your client stops if STARTTLS doesn't work/isn't
> available.
I saw `gnutls-cli --insecure...' when connecting to emails
servers occasionally. I don't know whether it's related to the
`starttl' setting.
Seems this occured much back in Emacs 24. I am now on Emacs 25.
> (Otherwise if an interceptor could remove the STARTTLS support
> announcement from the server, and if the client continues in
> non-encrypted mode, then it would be bad. smtpmail does the right thing,
> though:
>
> "starttls to insist on STARTTLS"
> - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/smtpmail/Encryption.html
> )
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adam
--
Hello, world
_______________________________________________
info-gnus-english mailing list
info-gnus-english@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-24 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <0491d5271e5848f8b3d75ae57ca1a724@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2016-10-24 13:40 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-10-24 14:41 ` Alice Bob
2016-10-24 16:03 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-11-11 6:26 ` You Wu
2016-11-11 17:00 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-11-24 5:19 ` You Wu [this message]
2016-10-24 13:14 Alice Bob
2016-10-24 14:09 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-10-24 14:27 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
2016-10-24 15:08 ` Alice Bob
2016-10-25 14:18 ` Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희, 黃炳熙)
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=8737ih4fqb.fsf@inventati.org \
--to=youwu@inventati.org \
--cc=asjo@koldfront.dk \
--cc=info-gnus-english@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).