[Dovecot] Question about Client Certificates

[Jerry]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:17:40 +0100
William Gallafent <william at gallaf.net> articulated:

> Current status: I have successfully configured imap with tls, accessed
> on port 993, and for security require a valid client certificate to be
> presented, using ssl_require_client_cert and ssl_verify_client_cert.
> This is all working fine!

Out of curiosity, why are you forcing port 993 if you are using TLS? I
have basically the same setup; however, I use port 143 instead. It helps
to eliminate the potential problem with an end user failing to change
the port number.

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Jerry ✌
Dovecot.user at seibercom.net

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