MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no Tue Mar 18 15:01:12 2014 To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu From: Arnt Gulbrandsen Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:52 2018 Subject: [Imap-protocol] STARTTLS after PREAUTH In-Reply-To: <059bac1f-35eb-4f87-bd5e-e986dfb46b83@flaska.net> References: <059bac1f-35eb-4f87-bd5e-e986dfb46b83@flaska.net> Message-ID: On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 9:46:29 PM CEST, Jan Kundr?t wrote: > I'm a bit confused by your message. How do you want to > authenticate your user? Specifically, what's the use case where > you can safely verify the user's identity, but cannot guarantee > confidentiality of the connection stream? Think about it this way. As a client author, how do you handle the case where the server sends you PREAUTH and you want to use TLS? Arnt