[Dovecot] SSL / TLS

[Charles Marcus]

On 7/10/2009, Steffen Kaiser (skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de) wrote:
> Well, I do not see it like that, moreover because the STARTLS is not
> essentially better than IMAP-over-SSL. At least one should be able to
> submit the domain/host the client wants to connect to, in order to
> enable virtual IMAP/SMTP/... hosting.

Hmmm... not sure what your comment re: virtual hosting has to do with
STARTTLS vs IMAPS...

I checked though and it doesn't appear that port 993 for IMAPS is
deprecated - at least not like 465 is deprecated for SMTPS...

>From the http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers:

...
urd             465/tcp    URL Rendesvous Directory for SSM
igmpv3lite      465/udp    IGMP over UDP for SSM
...
imaps		993/tcp    imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL
imaps		993/udp    imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL


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Best regards,

Charles