I started looking into this in early Feb as well. I emailed tech support and received the following reply:
At the moment the app currently supports mail servers with on non-secure >> SMTPs only. If the mail server you are trying to set up in MLO Email >> settings use secure SMTP, mail notification functionality will not work on >> MLO. > > We are working on this area improvements. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/10ac621a-89ae-4e91-8835-1e596c31139b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
