TCP 585

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Port585
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Synopsis

  • TCP 585 was historically registered by IANA for IMAP4-SSL (implicit TLS for IMAP).
  • This use was deprecated and replaced by IMAPS on 993 (and STARTTLS on 143), but some legacy deployments still expose 585 for backward compatibility.
  • Real-world software historically associated with this port includes Dovecot, Courier-IMAP, UW-IMAP, and Cyrus IMAP, whose documentation references 585 as the old implicit-TLS IMAP port; older clients like Outlook and Thunderbird were sometimes configured to use it.
  • Some enterprise mail setups (e.g., legacy Exchange IMAP4 services or older Cyrus/Courier installs) have been observed keeping 585 open to support older configurations.
  • Major providers today (Gmail, Microsoft 365, Yahoo) do not use 585, relying on 993 instead.
  • Security note: because 585 often indicates legacy IMAP over SSL, attackers and scanners probe it to find outdated services and weak/obsolete TLS configurations for exploitation.

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