Cyrus IMAP/POP Banner

Simon Matter simon.matter at invoca.ch
Tue Sep 16 02:55:32 EDT 2008


> Hi:
>
> I'm using cyrus-imapd 2.3.7 on CentOS 5.2 and I can't find serverinfo
> directive in its manual page.
>
> $ man -P cat imapd.conf | grep -i serverinfo
>
> Returns nothing!

What shows this?
zgrep serverinfo /usr/share/man/man5/imapd.conf.5.gz

Simon

> Is that directive only available in recent versions of cyrus-imapd?
>
> Adam Tauno Williams escribió:
>>> I have been googling over there and haven't find the answer to my
>>> question
>>> just another man looking for the same as me... I wanted to change the
>>> banner
>>> that cyrus imap and pop sends when you connect to them... basically the
>>> server greeting... I think it could be quite dangerous to show the
>>> version
>>> you're running... even the server you're running. Please could be
>>> anyway of
>>> doing this? how could I get my goal? For example when you telnet to
>>> port 110
>>> or 143 to be shown :
>>> +OK IMAP Server
>>> and nothing else....
>>
>> man imapd.conf
>> <quote>
>> serverinfo: on
>>
>> The  server  information to display in the greeting and capability
>> responses. Information is displayed as follows:
>>
>> "off" = no server information in the greeting or capabilities
>> "min" = servername in the greeting; no server information  in  the
>> capabilities
>> "on"  =  servername  and  product version in the greeting; product
>> version in the capabilities
>>
>> Allowed values: off, min, on
>> </quote>
>>
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