Port 465 with "implicit" (i.e. always-on) TLS is a more secure approach than port 587 with explicit (i.e. optional and only on with STARTTLS). Although we reject credentials on port 587 without STARTTLS, by that point credentials have already been sent.
On some machines localhost is defined as something other than 127.0.0.1, and if we mix "127.0.0.1" and "localhost" then some connections won't be to to the address a service is actually running on.
This was the case with DKIM: It was running on "localhost" but Postfix was connecting to it at 127.0.0.1. (https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/opendkim-is-not-running-port-8891/1188/12.)
I suppose "localhost" could be an alias to an IPv6 address? We don't really want local services binding on IPv6, so use "127.0.0.1" to be explicit and don't use "localhost" to be sure we get an IPv4 address.
Fixes#797
* added IMAP_SMTP_METHOD to z_push/backend_imap
* reverting that line accidentally deleted in commit 5055ef
* cf pull request GH-580 that commit is part of
Signed-off-by: Bernard `Guyzmo` Pratz <guyzmo+github@m0g.net>
Joshua Tauberer
Michael Kroes
Corey Hinshaw
Bernard `Guyzmo` Pratz
Michael Kroes
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