--On Wednesday, 02 October, 2002 10:54 -0500 Jeremey Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Udhay Shankar N wrote: >| At 10:04 AM 10/2/02 -0500, Jeremey Barrett wrote: >| >|> Amusingly, virtually none of them support STARTLS on any other protocol. >|> :) IMAP and POP are almost all supported only on dedicated SSL ports >|> (IMAPS, POP3S). Argh. >| >| I use Eudora, as I'm very comfortable with it (so comfortable, in fact, >| that it's my primary reason for booting Windows at all.) >| >| The version I use, 5.1, *does* support STARTTLS for POP over both the >| regular port 110 as well as alternate ports, as well as user-defined >| ports. It needs some tweaking, but the capability exists. >| >| I don't know about IMAP, as I don't use IMAP to get my mail. >| > > Yes, Eudora is the exception. It supports both STARTTLS and dedicated > SSL ports for all mail protocols (it even does SMTPS I think). it isn't the only exception: i use mulberry with IMAP, and it supports STARTTLS for both IMAP and SMTP over the normal ports; haven't tried POP3, although it looks like it should work. and this seems to work for mulberry on linux, macs and windows. -paul