Disallow cleartext on the wire

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Mon Jan 10 07:00:13 EST 2011


On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 14:40 -0800, Dudi Goldenberg wrote: 
> >I am using Thunderbird to test with. I want completely disallow logins  
> >without TLS for IMAP.
> Have a look at /etc/cyrus.conf:
> SERVICES {
>         # --- Normal cyrus spool, or Murder backends ---
>         # add or remove based on preferences
>         imap            cmd="imapd -U 30" listen="imap" prefork=0 maxchild=100
>         imaps           cmd="imapd -s -U 30" listen="imaps" prefork=0 maxchild=100
> #       pop3            cmd="pop3d -U 30" listen="pop3" prefork=0 maxchild=50
>         #pop3s          cmd="pop3d -s -U 30" listen="pop3s" prefork=0 maxchild=50
>         #nntp           cmd="nntpd -U 30" listen="nntp" prefork=0 maxchild=100
>         #nntps          cmd="nntpd -s -U 30" listen="nntps" prefork=0 maxchild=100
> 
> Just hash out imap and restart cyrus.

Incorrect. That disables IMAP (TCP/143) and leaves IMAP-over-SSL.
Secure IMAP (IMAP w/TLS) still uses TCP/143.   IMAP-over-SSL is rather
hackish.



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