Author: Tom Samplonius Date: To: Marc MERLIN CC: Philip Hazel, Jeffrey C. Ollie, exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] TLS/SSL and Outlook 97
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Marc MERLIN wrote:
... > While I don't know the details, I've always wondered if STARTTLS was a
> netscape ploy to make people buy their SSL capable MTA solution as no MTAs
> were STARTTLS capable when netscape 4.0 came out, and STARTTLS by design
> prevents the use of an SSL wrapper (the stunnel STARTTLS hack is really
> really ugly :-p)
Actually, it is the direction that mail standards are heading. All the
SSL specific versions (ssmtp, spop, simap) are going to go away.
Netscape was one of the first to implement this stuff according to
standards.
> Marc
