From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:28:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] git-imap-send: Add support for SSL.
Message-ID: <20080709022839.GA4989@toroid.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vbq18q7yk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

At 2008-07-08 16:20:19 -0700, gitster@pobox.com wrote:
>
> > -    Port = 143
> > +    Port = 993
> > +    sslverify = false
> >  ..........................
> 
> Don't we also want to keep a vanilla configuration in the example, or
> is imaps the norm and unencrypted imap is exception these days?

The norm is IMAP+STARTTLS on port 143, not IMAPS on port 993. The latter
is also widely deployed for compatibility with older clients, but it is
non-standard and its use isn't exactly encouraged.

-- ams