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I am trying to set up a third-party SMTP relay for outbound civiMail messages.  When I configure the outbound email setting and try to send a test message, I get an error that my client (civiMail) is using SSL and that I should turn it off.  Is there a way to do this?

I can configure the server to use SSL and when I do, everything works as expected.  But the service in more expensive this way and I don't really see the point of encrypting messages between civiMail and the server only to have them transmitted without encryption between the server and the recipient.

Any help would be appreciated. 

I was under the impression (perhaps incorrect) that username/password encryption was done independently of session encryption.  Whilst poking around trying to figure this out myself, I found this in ezc/Mail/src/transports/smtp/smtp_transport.php:

* Supported authentication methods (from strongest to weakest):
 *  - DIGEST-MD5
 *  - CRAM-MD5
 *  - NTLM (requires the PHP mcrypt extension)
 *  - LOGIN
 *  - PLAIN
Which reinforced my preconception.  But I can accept that I might be way off base on this one.

Ultimately not a big deal, I just try to move dollars from overhead to programming wherever I can.  Every bit helps as they say.