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Re: [OT] IANA ports (was: Filezilla a security risk)



On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:56:21 +0200, Slavko wrote:

> Dňa Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:33:17 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> napísal:
> 
>> What Wikipedia explains (and you asked "why") about the "smtps"
>> standard
> 
> Reread my initial mail, please. I don't ask "why" in it, but my english
> is poor, then perhaps i wrote it in wrong manner.

The "why" is not in your first message but in your second post:

"if smtps is standardized, then why i see this:"
                                ^^^

>> is not detailed in the RFC (because RFCs are not the place for long
>> dissertations...) but feel free to read the article or to ignore it.
> 
> For me is enough to know that SMTP over SLL was not standardized yet (or
> still?). Why and when this happens is not my problem in these days.

SMTPS (and SMTP over SSL/TLS) is standarized as always has been, what 
happens is that it was updated to use starttls extension and the older 
RFC was deprecated (but still used in some hosts).

Should you had read the Wikipedia article...

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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