SMTP Server Problems: Apple Mail and mailserv.regfish.com
October22
Just a short note: Today I migrated from me.com to regfish.de’s email-offering. It works like a charm, a lot faster and less latency at least from continental, ‘old’ europe. One caveat: Configuring the SMTP-server in Apple Mail required me to set the SSL port manually to 465 ‘Use custom port’, instead of the standard setting ‘Use default ports (25, 465, 587)’.
Their IMAP and SMTP servers work nicely with Apple Mail and the iPhone as well.
good to know regfish.com is demanding 465 its non standard 587 is much better after all
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Port 465 shows up Appendix A of the 1996 non-standard standard The SSL Protocol Version 3.0 as “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol with SSL”. Unfortunately, it’s not registered for SMTPs, it’s registered for URD - “URL Rendesvous Directory for SSM” by Cisco. The recommended approach, at least for authentication, is to use START TLS encryption on submission port 587.
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life is fun
regards
John Jones
http://www.johnjones.me.uk