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<p>Good. The options provided by Thunderbird are: None, STARTTLS and
SSL/TLS. So I will select the last one.<br>
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<p>Will I have to modify anything on the Dovecot side?</p>
<p>So far, my only modification to the file 10-mail.conf has been
this:<br>
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<p>mail_location = maildir:~/Mail<br>
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<p>Raymond<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/10/2020 8:39 AM, A. Schulze
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Am 10.11.20 um 06:42 schrieb Raymond Herrera:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I am preparing a new server, with Dovecot 2.2.36 and would like to know the currently recommended protocols. Should I stick to what I have? I would prefer to start with the easiest configuration possible, which I will revise later.
This is the command that I have been using to verify the server's functionality:
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RFC 8314 suggest to prefer implicit TLS over STARTTLS
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8314#section-3">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8314#section-3</a>
modern clients work mostly fine with that recommendation, too.
Andreas
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