[Dovecot] Sending email using IMAP

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at firmix.at
Sat Nov 4 20:40:44 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 17:10 -0600, Steven F Siirila wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:37:08PM +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 11:00 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > > Steven F Siirila wrote: 
> > > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:36:13AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > > IMAP requires a password. SMTP it's optional.
> > > > 
> > > > Not at the University of Minnesota.
> > > > We require ESMTP STARTTLS/AUTH over the standard mail submission port (587).
> > 
> > The question is: How do you enforce it on submission via port 25?
> 
> We do allow the same thing over port 25, but only for backward compatibility.
> (If you try using either port without STARTTLS+AUTH, it will not work.)
> And of course for those non-standard MUAs (i.e. older Outlook) we also do
> support port 465 (SSL) and require AUTH there as well.

Sorry, my above question was bad worded - it should have been:
The question is: How do you enforce submission via the submission port
(and inhibit submission via port 25)?

	Bernd
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