Plaintext access is no problem if the connection is secured via other means - 
for example internal network or VPN.
If the IMAP server cannot be accessed from the outside, and the traffic don't 
travel over wifi or public networks, no danger.

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Från: dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org <dovecot-boun...@dovecot.org> För Alexander 
Dalloz
Skickat: den 7 juli 2020 18:05
Till: dovecot@dovecot.org
Ämne: Re: Outlook vs Thunderbird

Am 07.07.2020 um 08:07 schrieb Mark Constable:
> 
> FWIW I meant if the client is Windows7/old-Outlook then changing 
> either 993/SSL or 143/STARTTLS to 143/NONE could help pick up the 
> mail. We had to do this for a 100 or so clients a few months ago after 
> upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04.

Curious, what's the rationale behind that move? Is it because that old beast of 
Outlook does not have the capabilities modern TLS/STARTTLS implementations 
require regarding TLS minimal version and ciphers?

But plaintext auth for mail access, seriously?

Alexander


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