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TLS stands for Transport Layer Security - it is similar to https web pages in that the data sent between your email program is sent securely.
It us useful to know that enabling TLS in your email program only affects how you send email to our servers. Once we have received your email we will then send it onwards to the recipients email server. Where possible our servers will also use TLS but if the recipient server does not support TLS then the email will be sent without any encryption.
Enabling TLS is different from encrypting your actual message - this can be done with PGP or S/MIME - these methods will mean that your message is encrypted so that only the person you are sending it to can decrypt and read the message.
You can read more about TLS on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security Wikipedia page]
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