On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 04:36:43PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I know that this is confusing terminology, but "tls" stands for "StartTLS", > > which works on port 587, and "ssl" starts for "smtps" on port 465. > > This reminds me of an earlier discussion we had that somehow petered > out before it resuted in usable improvement, > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtuo9kgo0.fsf@gitster.g/ > > I do not think it is feasible to immediately rename the two choices > to SSL/TLS vs StartTLS without transition period, but the first > patch in the three-patch series there to update the documentation > alone may have helped this case. > > We may also want to error out when seeing an unknown option other > than 'ssl' and 'tls', as the necessary first step to make it > possible to later safely accept StartTLS as a synonym for 'tls' and > 'ssl/tls' as a synonym for 'ssl'. Is it easier to just add less ambiguous aliases, eventually phasing out old terminology? tls -> starttls ssl -> smtps This way we don't have to change anything, and "smtps" is a valid way to refer to smtp over ssl (e.g. see /etc/services for 465/tcp). -K
