cyradm can't lolgin with --port 993

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, JOYDEEP wrote:

> Jorey Bump wrote:
>> JOYDEEP wrote:
>>
>>> when I had imap ; cyradm didn't have any problem to login. But after
>>> changing it to imaps cyradm can't login.
>>> the command I use is
>>> cyradm --port 993 -u cyrus localhost.
>>>
>>> the log says it as  .......... imaps TLS negotiation failed
>>> though I can succseful;ly use KMail and thunderbird with imaps at
>>> port 993.
>>>
>>> any fix is there ?
>>
>> If cyrus is configured for STARTTLS on port 143, use:
>>
>>  cyradm host.dom -tls
>>
>> I believe this feature was added in version 2.3.
>
> Mine is cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-27.6. I am not using port 143, but port 993
> which is imaps.
> thanks

cyradm from Cyrus 2.2.x does not support SSL or TLS connections.  Your 
options are:

1. Use stunnel to connect to port 993.
2. Add "imap" into your cyrus.conf and bind it to localhost only.

 	Andy