Hi Adrian, IMAP (SSL) is my recommendation, others might disagree.
Have a good read of "The Case For Email Security" at this link: <http://luxsci.com/blog/the-case-for-email-security.html> Especially Section 5: Securing Your Email With SSL or TLS Extract taken from the Article / "SSL: It is simple and easy to use SSL to secure the communications between your computers and your email service provider’s computers. This works no matter who your recipients are. SSL improves security in these ways: It establishes that you are contacting your service provider’s computers and not someone else’s It encrypts the username and password that you use to login to these servers. This mitigates identity theft and other issues. It protects your message from eavesdroppers between your computer and your SMTP server. The easiest thing you can do to make your email more secure is to use an email provider that supports “Secure Socket Layer” (SSL) for their Webmail, POP, IMAP, and SMTP servers. TLS is a type of SSL that can be initiated during a mail session; unlike TLS, SSL must be initiated before sending the email (see SSL versus TLS – What’s the difference?)." End of Extract/ Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 27/05/2012, at 11:02 AM, iCloud wrote: > Good morning all, > > Due to the imminent demise of MobileMe web hosting I have transferred my web > site to another host. I am setting up e-mail accounts such as > i...@skehan.id.au and the like but cant figure out if I should use the > Auto-Configure Mac Mail.app® for IMAP Access or the Auto-Configure Mac > Mail.app® for IMAP Access (SSL) app provided by the hosting people. They > also give manual settings; Supported Incoming Mail Protocols: POP3, POP3S > (SSL/TLS), IMAP, IMAPS (SSL/TLS) and Supported Outgoing Mail Protocols: SMTP, > SMTPS (SSL/TLS). > > It seems straight forward but to SSL or not to SSL is the question? > > Any advice will be appreciated. > > > Regards, > > > Adrian > > adrianske...@me.com > > www.skehan.id.au -- 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>
