This could be a known bug
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12952 Evo doesn't change the
connection to the SSL port unless you do a restart. So it may have
connected to 143, then evo was restarted and it connected to 993.
Completely independent of the local account change.

John

On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 19:31, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> That doesn't make any sense, imap doesn't know anything about mbox and
> mbox doesn't know anything about imap.
> 
> Nor do different accounts have any knowlegde of each other at all.
> 
> How do you know what port it connected to? Are you sure it didn't
> connect *before* you specified ssl?
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 21:39, Warren G. Anderson wrote:
> > I just set up an imaps server to connect to with evolution, but
> > encountered a strange problem. I had as my default account a local UNIX
> > mbox, and set up a second imap account. I checked the "use SSL" box on
> > the account when setting it up. However, when I connected, it opened a
> > non-secure (port 143) connection to the server. After fiddling with
> > various things for about an hour, I decided to disable the local account
> > (which I probably won't use anyway). I renewed my connection to the
> > server (which had timed out some time previously) and low and behold, it
> > was an imaps connection (port 993) this time. I'm pretty sure that the
> > only significant change I made was disabling the default (local)
> > account. Is this a known "feature"?
> > 
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