Article:		Secure Mail Reading on Mac OS X
Subject:		mail.mac.com does not support SSL
Date:		2003-05-16 04:19:58
From:		anonymous2
Response to: mail.mac.com does not support SSL
There's a possibility that it uses TLS which (simplified) means that they use SSL on port 143. You could check using tcpdump (or ethereal) in order to see whether the communication is encrypted.

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• mail.mac.com does not support SSL
  2003-05-16 04:24:24  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  (replying to my own anonymous post)
  
  mail.mac.com supports TLS on their imap-port:
  
  * CAPABILITY STARTTLS IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=EXTERNAL STARTTLS