Hi Ronni Thanks for response, and for improving my understanding of the black mysteries.
> It has nothing to do with iCloud as Apple's Mail servers do not use a TLS > Certificate for authentication. Good to know that it is not associated with iCloud. I don’t understand iCloud and I am hoping it will all go away. > [TLS Certificate] is actually a generic setting in Mail that can be applied > to any Mail server you have configured. It is used for client authentication > as an additional layer of security if your mail server happens to require it > (most do not -- it tends to be used only in corporate environments). Think > of it as an additional password, basically. This seems logical (now). > You are seeing '“TLS Certificate = none” > Click the drop-down for TLS Certificate... and see if there is anything there > to select. > > I would not change anything if your Mail Accounts are behaving correctly! Yes, each Mail account has a long Apple TLS Certificate number. I never had problems with either gmail or iiNet mail associated with the upgrade to Mavericks (luck perhaps). Gmail is IMAP and iiNet mail is POP. I won’t change anything! I will read up on encryption at some later date. A side comment: I can download all the POP mail to both iPad and iMac without mutual interference (or loss of messages), and also keep the last 25 mail messages on the iiNet website for convenient email reading when away from home. This seems to be at odds with the recent advice on how POP works, and the call to convert mail accounts from POP to IMAP! Cheers Alan On 27 Feb 2014, at 2:03 pm, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2014, at 10:48 am, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> Since applying the OSX update, Mail preferences has changed from “SSL” >> checkbox option to “TLS Certificate = none”. My previous settings were >> gmail = SSL ticked and iiNet = not ticked. (These were default settings >> applied when setting up the accounts.) >> >> Should the TLS certificate be selected/activated for each mail acount? >> >> Regards >> Alan > > Hi Alan, > > My Mail Preferences have NOT changed since installing OS X 10.9.2 update. > Are you having any problems with one or both mail accounts since installing > the update? > > "TLS Certificate - Transport Layer Security (TLS) > > Use a TLS certificate for security. Some POP and IMAP mail servers require > computers that connect to them to provide a certificate proving their > identity." > > It has nothing to do with iCloud as Apple's Mail servers do not use a TLS > Certificate for authentication. > > This is actually a generic setting in Mail that can be applied to any Mail > server you have configured. It is used for client authentication as an > additional layer of security if your mail server happens to require it (most > do not -- it tends to be used only in corporate environments). Think of it > as an additional password, basically. > > This setting has no bearing on whether your actual IMAP or SMTP sessions with > the server are encrypted or not; that is controlled by the "Use SSL" settings > found on the "Advanced" page (for IMAP connections) and on the individual > SMTP server configurations for outgoing Mail (you can access these by > clicking on the drop-down list of Outgoing Mail Servers and choosing "Edit > SMTP Server List." > As long as "Use SSL" is enabled, your IMAP and SMTP sessions are encrypted. > > Note that the TLS Certificate option only appears if you have a valid > certificate in your OS X Keychain that could be used for this purpose; the > option is hidden otherwise which likely explains why it is not appearing on > my MacBook Pro OS X 10.9.2 > > So to answer your question "Should the TLS certificate be selected/activated > for each mail account?" > I don't know.... > You are seeing '“TLS Certificate = none” > Click the drop-down for TLS Certificate... and see if there is anything there > to select. > > I would not change anything if your Mail Accounts are behaving correctly! > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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