TLS fails on imaps port
    Joseph Brennan 
    brennan at columbia.edu
       
    Mon Jan 25 14:00:52 EST 2010
    
    
  
Examples:
[1] openssl s_client -connect mail.columbia.edu:993
[2] openssl s_client -connect mail.columbia.edu:143 -starttls imap
[3] openssl s_client -connect mail.columbia.edu:993 -starttls imap
[1] and [2] should work ; [3] fails.
The U Wash IMAP server gives the same results.
These alternatives are commonly called "ssl" and "tls", but the actual
distinction is whether the starttls command is used to get Transport
Layer Security.  First described in RFC 2595.
Joseph Brennan
Columbia University Information Technology
    
    
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