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Thunderbird: STARTTLS / Password method
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In Thunderbird, for my e-mail account setup, I see Server Settings: Connection Security: STARTTLS Authentication method: Normal password Other choices for Authentication are: - Encrypted - Kerberos - NTLM What are the advantages of using Encrypted? (I thought STARTTLS was good enough)? What do I ne…
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STARTTLS will still transfer your password encrypted over the wire. The 'encrypted password' settings will encrypt the actual password. Personally I like STARTTLS because all the data transferred is encrypted, not just the passwords. Handy if I'm de…
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