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Does Benign work on accounts with SSL?

April 26, 2017accounts Benign SSL

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Does Benign work on accounts with SSL?

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Benign can’t work with SSL since SSL is designed to prevent “man in the middle” attacks, which is what Benign does. Benign has been designed to do a few things in relation to this. When importing an account that is set to use SSL, Benign warns you that you can import this account but if you do, the SSL functionality is disabled. This means you can either continue the import, or cancel it. SSL can be used/started in two ways, by using another connection to the server on Port 995, or by the client issuing an SSL/STARTTLS command during normal communication with the mail server on Port 110. Benign does not pass on the STARTTLS command. This all means that Benign won’t work on an account that requires SSL, but it does work on an account that currently uses SSL, but doesn’t need to.