t/s expired cert error

Yassine Chaouche a.chaouche at algerian-radio.dz
Wed Mar 3 11:11:23 EET 2021


Le 3/2/21 à 9:04 PM, Arjen de Korte a écrit :
> Citeren Voytek Eymont <voytek at sbt.net.au>:
>
>> On Wed, March 3, 2021 1:17 am, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
>> hmm, just tried this, 110/143 gives error, 995/993 doesn't:
>>
>> I'll try changing in TB to SSL/TLS not StartTLS, 995 or 993, etc, 
>> and, see
>> if error goes
>>
>> # echo | openssl s_client -connect emu.sbt.net.au:110 2>/dev/null |
>> openssl x509 -noout
>>  -enddate
>
> On port 110/143 you need to tell the POP3/IMAP server to upgrade the 
> connection to TLS. In that case, it will work just fine:
>
> # echo | openssl s_client -connect emu.sbt.net.au:110 -starttls pop3 
> 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -enddate
> notAfter=Apr 27 12:11:32 2021 GMT
>
> #echo | openssl s_client -connect emu.sbt.net.au:143 -starttls imap 
> 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -enddate
> notAfter=Apr 27 12:11:32 2021 GMT
>
> Remember that there is a difference between connections that are 
> upgraded to TLS (110/143) and connections that use SSL by default 
> (995/993). If you don't tell the first that you want to use TLS, the 
> server will not present the certificate, unlike the latter.
>
> Regards, Arjen
>
*tl;dr *: use*-starttls *if you want TLS on a non-TLS port.

-- Yassine
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