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

[giri at dombox.org (Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan)]

What makes you think I never did any research?

https://medium.com/@Viruthagiri/smtp-ports-25-vs-587-vs-465-de1046f57636

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 10:10 PM James Downs <egon at egon.cc> wrote:

> > On Jan 12, 2019, at 08:14, Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan <giri at 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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Best Regards,

Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan
Dombox, Inc.
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