On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 09:47:25 -0400
Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> There have been some attacks on STARTTLS lately, so I'm finally
> getting around to using implicit TLS for mail submission on port 465.

FWIW I am Co-author of the paper that documented these attacks, so in
case you have any questions I guess I can answer them.

> I tried this on dev.gentoo.org, and it seems to work. For example: I
> just switched Evolution to port 465, with always-on TLS, and am
> sending this message.
> 
> Is this supported? I don't see it in the infra docs anywhere.

I've been using 465 for a while and probably would've noted during our
research if Gentoo wouldn't support that.
I guess we can conclude that it works and we should probably mention it
in the docs.


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Hanno Böck
https://hboeck.de/

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