Re: How to find out if SMTP mailserver supports STARTTLS or (only) SSL/TLS ?

Dave Horsfall <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nmap.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Ben Stover via dev wrote:

> How can I find out (with nmap/netcat) if this smtp mailserver supports 
> STARTTLS protocol or (only) SSL/TLS?

Telnet to it and see what the banner says?  You can't do it stealthily, if 
that's what you're after; you have to connect to it.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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