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Re: SMTP Over TLS on Port 26 - Implicit TLS Proposal [Feedback Request]


From: James Downs <egon () egon cc>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 08:39:26 -0800

On Jan 12, 2019, at 08:14, Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan <giri () dombox org> wrote:

My solution is intended for clients. A client should decide whether to transmit mails in clear text or not. 

You should spend some time doing research by reading RFCs, and doing a little searching on the internet. Your proposal, 
would, canonically be called SMTPS.

If you put that into a search engine, you'll find not only is it deprecated, but has an assigned port number of 465.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTPS


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