[Dovecot] Enforcing TLS
Giuliano Gavazzi
dev+lists at humph.com
Fri Jan 9 14:33:24 EET 2009
On F 9 Jan, 2009, at 13:11 , Giuliano Gavazzi wrote:
>
> On T 6 Jan, 2009, at 14:59 , Ed Schouten wrote:
>
>> My question: is there support to enforce TLS when people connect to
>> non-SSL ports? If someone comes up with a solution, I'll add it to
>> the
>> SSL article on the Wiki.
>>
>> I'm using Dovecot 1.1.7, installed on a FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE system.
>
> not sure I understand the question correctly, if I do then the
> answer would be you cannot. If the client wants to speak plain it
> will. I do not see why you would want to keep on listening on port
> 143 if you
sorry, I wasn't aware that disable_plaintext_auth would suppress the
AUTH=PLAIN capability list. I would not rely on that though, there
might be around buggy clients (of which there are in general plenty!)
that would ignore that...
g
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