STARTTLS Question

[Jim Archer]

Hi Daniel...

I can't answer your question, but I am wondering what client behavior you 
have seen in this regard that is incorrect?

Thanks very much...

Jim


--On Tuesday, October 07, 2003 4:13 PM -0400 Daniel Whelan 
<merlin at ophelan.com> wrote:

> I'm currently operating a Cyrus server listening in the following
> configuration, and authenticating via PLAIN/LOGIN with a saslauthd
> backend (only relevant config lines listed):
>
> imap        cmd="imapd -U 30" listen="localhost:imap"
> imaps       cmd="imapd -s -U 30" listen="imaps"
> pop3s       cmd="pop3d -s -U 30" listen="pop3s"
>
> The IMAPS and POP3S ports are for user interaction, and the IMAP port is
> for the local webmail client (which operates over apache and mod_ssl). I
> don't wish to offer any services in an unencrypted format.
>
> My question is, can I offer the IMAP port to any client but configure it
> such that they are required to STARTTLS to communicate? This would help
> with some picky email clients that don't like to deal with the alternate
> IMAPS port properly. Thanks!
>
> Daniel