Re: draft-hoffman-rfc2487bis-03.txt

Bodo Moeller <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:03:08 +0200

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On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:18:35PM +0200, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:

> Hmm. I think I/we do need some clarification. Section 4 states:
>     The STARTTLS keyword is used to tell the SMTP client that the SMTP
>     server is currently able to negotiate the use of TLS. It takes no
>     parameters.
> Section 5 however allows
>     454 TLS not available due to temporary reason
> 
> So actually, section 5 implicitly allows the server to step back from its
> STARTTLS offer.

No.  This 454 is a reply that clients may see in response to STARTTLS
when STARTTLS was not offered in the EHLO reply.


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