how to enable TLs encryption only ?

Olaf Fraczyk olaf at navi.pl
Fri Mar 30 07:58:44 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 17:29 +0530, JOYDEEP wrote:
> Olaf Fraczyk wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> > I mean that if you want to force encryption on users you need to use
> > imaps. 
> > If you have imap + TLS it is up to the client to decide if it wants to
> > upgrade the "clear text" connection to TLS.
> > Disabling imap disallows connection of clients and sending clear text
> > passwords on the wire :)
> > You may consider (not technically 100% accurate):
> > imaps=imap+TLS_always_on.
> >   
> 
> OK and what about the tls entries I have added in main.cf ?
> should I disable those ?
main.cf? You mean imapd.conf?
They are used by imaps.
If you disable them you will have non-functioning imaps.

Regards,

Olaf
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Olaf Fraczyk <olaf at navi.pl>
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