To protect your password, you can change the password via webmail before starting to a temporary password, then after you are all done you can change it again. If connection security is set to none, as you realized, the connection would be non-secure. To make a static backup of your messages with imap requires more advanced steps than you might remember from making pop3 backups.įor a one-time use, to backup your messages, if it was a personal email account not work, and I was not employed by a large corporation or a small one concerned with legal issues, I would be satisfied with connection over a non-secure connection. Pop3 connections can only access messages in the inbox, so if you have other folders on the server it will not see them, so it may not be a practical way to do what you want. This only indirectly comments on a few of your questions, sorry. When choosing STARTTLS and relaunch TB, I receive the following message: It also does nothing if I leave the port set to 995. When I do that, TB does **not** prompt me for a password, which it does if I have connection security set to "None". When I set connection security to SSL/TLS I have to set port 110 manually TB defaults to 995. Obviously I don't want to send my password in the clear. It's not clear to me whether I should setĪuthentication Method to "Normal Password" or "Encrypted Password" when setting the connection security to either SSL/TLS or STARTTLS. My understanding is that port 110 is not secure by default (that's port 995) but secure connections can happen over port 110 by setting connection security (under Tools | Account settings | Server settings) to SSL/TLS or STARTTLS. Overseas location, not great English, clearly following steps on a script rather than any actual understanding of issues.Īuthentication method: Encrypted passwordĮarthlink is telling me that this is "secure" for content as well as password. I want to set up a secure connection to the POP3 server so that both passwords and email headers/contents will be sent encrypted.
I have several issues but will take them one at a time. My previous email client was Seamonkey (another Mozilla project, essentially the continuation of the Netscape combo web browser / email client / other stuff).
I have been storing my incoming email on Earthlink's POP3 server for several years, using their webmail interface to access and manage.
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Switching ISPs soon and need to download my Earthlink email, make sure I have a local copy saved, and delete it from Earthlink's servers. I am (still, but not for long) on Earthlink. I am setting up Tbird for the first time.