On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Mark Edwards wrote:
> Okay, I took this issue over to the Squirrelmail developer's list, and
> this is what I got out of them.  Squirrelmail does TLS, not SSL, and it
> does not support the STARTTLS command.

That is a meaningless statement.  TLS is used with a STARTTLS command on
the regular port; SSL is used with a separate port.  If you support TLS,
you use the STARTTLS command.

> imapd can do SSL on, say port 993, or it can do TLS with STARTTLS on
> port 143, right?

Correct.

More to the point, the client uses the legacy SSLv23_client_method when it
makes a port 993 connection, and uses the modern TLSv1_client_method when
negotiating a STARTTLS command on port 143.

If Squirrelmail does not do this, then it is broken.

> But TLS without STARTTLS is not supported?

Considering that there is no such thing, it isn't surprising that
something non-existant isn't supported.

-- Mark --

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