On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 01:15 +0200, guenther wrote:
The issue is, that the Secure Connections options are named badly, or rather used to be (getting back to this). Always means SSL (port 993), Whenever Possible means StartTLS -- which IIRC starts with port 143 and uses 993 later on, or some such.
Starttls means that both ends switch over to TLS mode, using the same socket. Port 993 has nothing to do with it.
However, the real issue behind this is, that the options where named badly. Since 2.6.0, this is corrected and clearly states No encryption, TLS and SSL encryption respectively.
Hmmm, still not clear. TLS == SSLv3. Something like No encryption, Starttls, Secure IMAP (SSL) would be more logical. OTOH I don't get it why it should be configurable to enable/disable starttls. It either is supported/handshaked on both ends or not.
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