STARTTLS available?

Marten Lehmann lehmann at cnm.de
Mon Oct 23 13:25:03 EDT 2006


Hello,

> Good, now show us your imapd.conf and any tls errors that appear in your 
> log.

configdirectory: /cyrus/config
partition-default: /cyrus/spool
admins: cyrus
sievedir: /cyrus/config/sieve
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail

altnamespace: true
hashimapspool: true
unixhierarchysep: true
virtdomains: userid
allowusermoves: true

sasl_pwcheck_method: getpwent auxprop saslauthd
sasl_mech_list: PLAIN

servername: test
imaps_tls_cert_file: /cyrus/certs/imap.crt
imaps_tls_key_file: /cyrus/certs/imap.key
pop3s_tls_cert_file: /cyrus/certs/pop3.crt
pop3s_tls_key_file: /cyrus/certs/pop3.key

lmtp_over_quota_perm_failure: true
munge8bit: true
username_tolower: true

There are no tls errors as TLS is working fine. Remember: pop3s is 
running with ssl on port 995 all the time, same with imaps on port 993. 
Whereas pop3 on port 110 and imap on port 143 are usually not encrypted. 
But with STARTTLS you can encrypt the session while still connecting to 
port 110/143, while you usually have to connect to the special ports to 
get encrypted connections. However, the server must show that he 
supports STARTTLS by mentioning it on the CAPABILITIES list, otherwise 
clients aren't trying to use it.

Regards
Marten


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