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RE: POP3 not using same connection for multiple requests when using starttls

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:28:02 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Steve Holme wrote:

>> Note that this says "TRY". That's a bit devious, as it means the user is
>> actually fine with either way, it just wants to try SSL and go with it if
>> it works. That option can however get set to CURLFTPSSL_CONTROL or
>> CURLFTPSSL_ALL which mean: MUST use SSL.
>
> Does that mean if a user sets the SSL value to CONTROL or ALL and the SMTP /
> POP3 / IMAP server doesn't support the upgrading of connections via TLS that
> the connection will fail?

Yes, exactly! SSL or die.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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