Re: Outlook 2003 fails to use SSL

From: Jeff Stephenson [MSFT] (stephenson_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:01:06 -0800

Glad to have been of assistance. Thanks for your input as well - it pointed
out to me that we really needed to change our SSL/TLS defaults for
particular port numbers... 

-- 
Jeff Stephenson
Outlook Development
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"Richard Stevenson (rot13)" <evpuneq@nygreangvirhavirefr.arg> wrote in
message news:BPq8c.15706$rw6.296666@news.xtra.co.nz...
> Jeff Stephenson [MSFT] wrote:
>
> >  On which port is he trying to connect?  Outlook 2003 (and 2002, post
SP-1,
> >  for that matter) will initially attempt STARTTLS on port 25 and SSL on
any
> >  other port.  If that fails, it will fallback to the alternative.  Could
you
> >  turn on diagnostic logging (see
> >  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q300479) and
post
> >  the OPMLog.log file (preferably as an attachment) after this fails for
the
> >  user?
>
> Ah... found it, with the help of that log.  The logfile showed an error
> message that the server didn't send (it appears nowhere in the Sendmail
> source code, and it's in Engrish... whatever you think of the Sendmail
> guys, they can at least speak properly).  The guy's laptop had one of
> those really annoying virus scanners that intercepted outbound SMTP
> traffic without needing to change the client settings (sort of like a
> transparent proxy, I guess).  I've killed it.
>
> Thanks for your help - it would have taken me *much* longer to find it if
> I hadn't had that clue.
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
>

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