On 4 Feb 2013, at 16:02, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Well the online tester made me aware of it, and some of my clients are stuck with Outlook Express, thus my interest in it.
The intrinsically bad idea of SMTPS died before ever being anything like a standard, and only survived as a zombie protocol because MS jumped on it without thinking. 9 years late, MS issued a patch in 2007 for OE that enabled TLS on port 587 and that patch was rolled into Windows XP SP3 in 2008.
The bottom line is that anyone still running a version of OE that can't handle standard submission is running a grossly insecure and obsolete system. Rather than accommodating that irresponsible behavior, you would do your clients and everyone else a service by making it untenable.
