how to use cyradm with imaps ?

[Andrew Morgan]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Sébastien Rozier wrote:

>>>>> I want to desactivate completely imap service to keep only imaps.
>>>>> But I can't manage to connect to my server with cyradm.
>>>>> (Everything is working fine if I keep regulat imap service)
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried this (thanx to Simon Matter) but it doesn't work for me :
>>>>> cyradm --auth login --tls -u cyrus at mydomain.com localhost
>>>>> cyradm --auth login --tls --port 931 -u cyrus at mydomain.com localhost
>>>>
>>>> Port should be 993 I guess?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Of course, my mistake (but already tried with the good value)
>>> -bash-3.1$ cyradm --auth login --port 993 -u cyrus at mydomain.com localhost
>>> IMAP Password:
>>>               -bash-3.1$
>>> -> Exits witthout doing anything (no core either)
>>
>> And what shows up in /var/log/maillog ?
>>
>> Simon
>
> In fact, I don't use and don't want to use TLS, but IMAP over SSL.
> (TLS is through imap service n port 143, right ? I don't want to have
> anything listening on this port)
> I'm sot sure cyradm supports this natively, maybe I should launch it through
> a SSH tunnel ?

Isn't there a way to have Cyrus listen on the regular IMAP port (143) but 
require a secure connection to login?  Some trick with allowplaintext 
and/or sasl_minimum_layer?

Who cares if you listen on 143 as long as people aren't sending passwords 
in the clear.  TLS is as good as SSL.

 	Andy