![]() ![]() Some time ago, I thought that TLS allowed an account's password and body text to be encrypted, preventing any sort of effective eavesdropping en route, but I'm beginning to wonder if that's correct. However, I'm comparatively ignorant of the workings of TLS, so can someone enlighten me as to how TLS works? Are there different levels of TLS that can be used maybe just certification from the source of the message, or instead some form of full encryption/decryption? My e-mail provider, along with most others, now highly recommends that I use TLS. Is this the case and, if so, how should the settings be used and, generally, what needs to be done to fully implement TLS in an account configured into Mail? But when I move to Sierra, I gather that Mail, and hence the e-mail account, can be secured by means of some proper TLS settings. I'm given to understand, though, that Sierra does now provide TLS in its place.Ĭertainly, as matters stand at present, my e-mail traverses the Internet non-secured (in plaintext). ![]() Unfortunately, SSL for e-mail is, for the mostpart, redundant these days. In Mavericks, it appears that the only security settings remotely of this type made available for POP/IMAP accounts are SSL. OSX Mavericks (from which I'll be migrating shortly to Sierra) doesn't support TLS (Transport Level Security). ![]()
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