On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 09:11:43AM -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > > 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). FWIW, those options make quite a bit of sense to me (and I agree the transition to them would be easy). -Peff
