TLS fails on imaps port

Bob Dye bobdye at vintagefactor.com
Sun Jan 24 09:39:31 EST 2010


Joseph Brennan wrote:
> --On Saturday, January 23, 2010 4:54 PM -0800 Bob Dye 
> <bobdye at vintagefactor.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm running Cyrus-imapd 2.3.7 on a Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 system.
>>
>> TLS works fine if I connect to the imap port (143). If I try to connect
>> instead via the imaps port (993), the attempt times out and I get the
>> following in the log:
>>
>> imaps[27170]: imaps TLS negotiation failed: [xx.xx.xx.xx]
>> imaps[27170]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls() failed
>>     
>
>
>
> Normal.  It should fail.  993 requires SSL.
>
>
> Joseph Brennan
> Columbia University Information Technology
>
>
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>   
993 (the port) does not require SSL. The official IANA definition is 
"imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL".

Perhaps you're saying that Cyrus-imapd only supports SSL on 993 for some 
reason?

-- 

Bob Dye
Vintagefactor

<http://www.vintagefactor.com/> <http://www.vintagefactor.com/>

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