Shaun T. Erickson wrote:

Looking at the two startup scripts, it looks like there are two ways to secure the connection:
...
I don't understand the differences between the two methods, and why I might choose one over the other (or both?). Can someone educate me o this, please? TIA.

Normally you would run both. Your mail client may support IMAP-SSL on an alternate port, in which case the SSL handshake takes place immediately following the connection, or it may support STARTTLS, in which case the client establishes a plain text connection, issues the STARTTLS command, and then begins a handshake.




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