Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm wondering why anyone would want to switch the backend at run-time? > There has been talk in the past about removing the openssl code [1] > and just relying on the curl backend. I think that is a worthwhile > goal as it simplifies the code and means we would avoid having to > worry about whether we're using openssl correctly [2]. Excellent point. Is there a downside if we only do imap via cURL library and lose the code that directly use OpenSSL?