SSL with OperaMail leads to STARTTLS negotiation failed in the logs ?

[Christian Schulte]

Ken Murchison wrote:

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> Christian Schulte wrote:
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>> Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
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>>> -- "Stephen L. Ulmer" <ulmer at ufl.edu> is rumored to have mumbled on 
>>> Sonntag, 11. Mai 2003 12:04 Uhr -0400 regarding Re: SSL with 
>>> OperaMail leads to STARTTLS negotiation failed in the logs ?:
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>>>>   cs> So I have a self-signed ca certificate then and you mean that
>>>>   cs> could be the problem ?
>>>>
>>>> What I meant was that if you didn't issue client certificates and use
>>>> them for authentication, I thought that STARTTLS would fail.
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>>> No. STARTTLS works perfectly fine without client certificates. 
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>> So why does imap over SSL on port 993 work and STARTTLS on port 143 
>> not where it should ? ;-)
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> My guess is that your client doesn't support TLSv1 and the associated 
> ciphers (as required by RFC 2595).  If its simply trying to do 
> SSLv2/v3 within the STARTTLS command, its not going to work.  Eudora 
> has the same problem. 


Ah! So it is a problem with OperaMail and Eudora and not cyrus is to 
blame! I just tested TheBat mailclient and it works using STARTTLS on 
port 143!

Thanks to all!

--Christian