[Dovecot] Auth socket can't listen using ssl

[Timo Sirainen]

On 28.1.2014, at 5.28, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:

>> Le Monday 27 January 2014 à 12:08 -0500, Steve Litt a écrit :
>>> I read in some docs somewhere that Dovecot automatically
>>> trusts anything on localhost. If you're telnetting into it from the same
>>> physical computer that hosts the port,  try telnetting into it from a
>>> different physical computer with a different IP address and see if you
>>> can still telnet in.
>> 
>> I've tried from localhost and another computer. In both tries, the
>> connection is made without ssl.
> 
> Hmm, maybe "internal" sockets do not utilize SSL at all? Just IMAP/POP/ManageSieve?

Pretty much, yeah. I guess some day the code should be changed so everything supports it automatically. Currently if SSL auth socket is wanted it would require adding something like 30 lines of code I think (if anyone wants to try, doveadm's code should be helpful in seeing how it's done).