SMTP AUTH

[Richard Stevenson]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Lee Dilkie wrote:

>> You've got "This server requires a secure connection (SSL)"
>> enabled for
>> the SMTP server in Outlook?
>
> In my experience (outlook 2000, not tested on outlook express) this 
> won't work. Outlook doesn't seem to understand that "use SSL" means "use 
> STARTLS". What I did was to configure sendmail to also support "smtps" 
> (SSL before SMTP) on the smtps port (465) and point outlook at that port 
> with the "use ssl" checked.

Outlook 2002 (from Office XP) will try STARTTLS if SMTP-over-SSL doesn't 
work for any port other than 25, apparently, but as I said, it's still a 
bit hairy.  I've got clients in .us, .uk, and .nz doing this with my 
server in .nz.  FWIW, I believe Microsoft are still working on this - I'm 
told they might default to trying STARTTLS first for port 587.  These 
things take time; the MSA standard is only about five years old, after 
all...

Cheers

Richard


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Richard Stevenson