[Dovecot] TLS SNI with Dovecot
Gedalya
gedalya at gedalya.net
Mon Dec 23 00:09:15 EET 2013
On 12/22/2013 04:26 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> forget it - SNI is relevant for webservers because different
> vhosts with different contents, typically not for mailservers
>
> why do you start the burden of different certs instead
> "mail.your-company.tld" and give that hostname to any user?
>
While it's true that there is no strictly technical benefit to SNI in
IMAP, it can perhaps have benefits in terms of presentability.
Hosted domain customers might want to be able to use their own
certificates issued to them rather than using Subject Alternate Names
etc, for purely cosmetic reasons.
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