Re: [Evolution] Ports and SSL/TLS

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Sun, 2019-08-25 at 22:26 -0700, Dr Dave Mason wrote:
> I am suddenly (last week or so ) Unable to use security on my imap
> email account. When I set port 993 for the imap server it goes back to
> 143 by itself. When I set 465 on SMTP server it also resets itself. If
> I select TLS in the drop down lost for encryption, nothing works.
>
> If I use no security and ports 143 and 587, everything is fine.

As I said in answer to the very same question here:

 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2019-August/msg00077.html

"Port 993 is IMAPS, aka IMAP over SSL - if that's what you need to use,
then set the encryption to that and the port number will change
automatically."

There is no option for "TLS" (certainly not on the most recent
versions), there is "STARTTLS" which uses the standard IMAP port then
switches to a different port for the encryption, or there's "SSL" which
uses a different port.

P.