On 21/08/17 13:39, Robert Wolf wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
On 21/08/17 10:37, Gedalya wrote:
On 08/21/2017 07:28 AM, voy...@sbt.net.au wrote:
is there a 'preferred way'? should I tell users to use 143 over 993 ? or
993 over 143? or?
There is no concrete answer. There are various opinions and feelings about
this.
The opinion againt 993/995 is that these are not standard ports,
Out of curiosity, is there a source for this? It's the first time I hear that
993/995 are not standard ports - and searching on the Internet, I can't find
any evidence to back it up? Also, pretty much all email software has been
using them for the past 20 years or so. It seems like a curiously high rate of
adoption for a non-standard :-)
Hello,
IMHO the "not standard ports" is meant as "old, useless ports now".
So in short, ports 993/995 are IANA officially approved, and thus
"standard". Further to this, they are in use by the vast majority of
email providers, and as far as I can tell, there are no functional or
security disadvantages to using SSL over 993/995 - instead of STARTTLS
over 110/143.
