IMSP + SSL/TLS

Alan Thew Alan.Thew at liverpool.ac.uk
Thu Jun 16 05:52:17 EDT 2005


On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:00 , Jörg Eichhorn <eichhorn at ponton-consulting.de> said:

>
>
> --On Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2005 18:59 +0200 Alexander Dalloz 
> <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
>
>> To use IMAPS configure cyrus.conf - in the SERVICES section something
>> like
>> 
>> imaps               cmd="imapd -s" listen="imaps" prefork=0
>> 
>> and generate the required certificates using OpenSSL. There are plenty
>> of howtos in the www (use google).
>
>
> For the IMAP server this is clear and i'm using it for several year. I meant 
> the IMSP (not IMAP) server.
> What is possible is using tools like stunnel to wrap ssl around the plain 
> call, but it would be nice if the server would support it directly.
>
There are patches in the cvs which I applied to the 1.7b source. It works
although if you run it through inetd, processes don't seem to die 
correctly.

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