Re: [exim] Tls on connect as and SMTP Client

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] Tls on connect as and SMTP Client
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:07:33 +0800, W B Hacker <wbh@???>
wrote:
>Port 465 was 'officially' reassigned by the IANA just about a year ago - to a
>proprietary Cisco protocol that has nothing to do with smtp.


But Microsoft mail clients are still officially using it and do not
have any other possibility to to encrypted authentication.

Now, what's more official?

IANA was extremely short-sighted by not keeping 465/tcp free for
Microsoft's abuse.

Greetings
Marc

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