[OSX-Users] Re: Warning: El Capitan Beta 3 release note for Apple Mail.app

[Tim Chown]

On 9 Jul 2015, at 16:39, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 09/07/2015 14:46, Tim Chown wrote:
>>> On 8 Jul 2015, at 20:17, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It wasn't just Apple, Alpine (on latest Ubuntu) broke too due to removal of support for crackable export-grade ciphers.
>> Removed from Mac OS X or from smtp.ecs?
> smtp.ecs would offer an export-grade cipher, which OS X would refuse to use and then not opt to use something better. i *think* that's what was happening, none of the logs are detailed enough to show it well.
> 
> Now it only offers ciphers which OS X (and everyone else) are happy with.

Ah, thanks Jules. I think Andy should still submit that bug as an apparent failing in the negotiation.

And at least the plus side of all this is that we are now running stronger security.

>>> Now it's succeeding first time, the Apple bug may no longer affect us.
>> Yep, works 25/ssl/smtp auth now, thanks :)
> :-)
> 
> No-one else has complained at all today about this problem with smtp.ecs, so I assume it's working fine now.

Yup, all seems fine - many thanks Jules :)

Tim

> 
> Cheers,
> Jules.
> 
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>>> Jules.
>>> 
>>> On 08/07/2015 20:04, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>>>> The workaround is working (as you can see), but it's a little frustrating when Apple manage to break things :/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Jules
>>> 
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> Jules
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