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Hi, thank you for your reply.
Instead is it possible to use STARTTLS and port 110, right?
Which is more secure?
I think that starttls is just a little insecure only for the very first part of transaction. After the negotiation, the encryption level is the same of ssl.
Please tell me if I am wrong.
Thank you again
Yes that is possible basically it provides you security on the same port other than using a different port for secure communication. However, why you want to do that, I mean what is the compelling reason behind not using secure port. I mean you can use STARTTLS + Secure port for better security.
STARTTLS handshake process is what I think is done on non-secured channel once that is done it is on TLS. That is my understanding.
My personal preference would be to go with STARTTLS + Secure port rather than doing with STARTTLS - Secure port.
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