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Re: [yam] draft-daboo-srv-email: POP3S/IMAPS?

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Mon, 18 January 2010 13:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [yam] draft-daboo-srv-email: POP3S/IMAPS?
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On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Ned Freed wrote:
>
> > Why does the spec provision for IMAPS and POP3S?
>
> Because a provisioning mechanism that fails to deal with the needs ot
> real-world deployments - and there's plenty of this secure port stuff deployed
> out there - makes itself far less likely to deploy.

In that case shouldn't it also document smtps?

Tony.
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