Re: Patch: Add SMTP_AUTH-support

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

On 31. jul. 2007, at 16.40, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> > It's important to distinguish SSL and TLS. With SSL you use port 465
> > and start ssl before any data is transmitted. With TLS you use the
> > default SMTP-port 25 and initiate SSL later as shown above.
>
> The monit socket sets SSL_VERSION_AUTO so SSL version or TLS should  
> be transparent and automatically setup by OpenSSL during the  
> handshake. So no need to distinguish between ssl|tls, at least that  
> is the theory.

Ah I was too fast when replying and did not see that STARTTLS first  
speak plain text before negotiating SSL. Ok, in that case distinguish  
between ssl|tls _is_ important.