On 20/03/2012 01:37, Jeff Simmons wrote:
On Monday, March 19, 2012 04:16:46 pm you wrote:
On 3/19/2012 4:04 PM, Jeff Simmons wrote:
I'm working with a company that presently has a Linux mailserver which all users have (no shell) accounts on. Mail is accessed via pop3 with plaintext authentication. They want to move to a system using imap with SSL. I'm building them a new server. I'd like to offer both for a while so we can work the bugs out and migrate users over to SSL imap over time. It appears that in order to limit the imap connections to SSL I will need to run two separate instances of Dovecot. Is this correct?
I only have SSL or TLS connections enabled and I only have one copy of Dovecot running.
Let me rephrase that. I want to run plaintext authentication pop3 and ssl/tls only authentication imap. The 'allow plaintext authentication' configuration directive appears to be global, meaning I will need to run two instances of dovecot for a while. Is that correct, or can this be done on a single instance of dovecot?
there is no connection between the plaintext auth to the ssl\tls layer. you can just change the in the service section of the 10-master.conf file of the imap to no imap at all and use only imaps listener with port for your choose such as 143 or 993 and you will have a only imap over ssl.
Regards, Eliezer
-- Eliezer Croitoru https://www1.ngtech.co.il IT consulting for Nonprofit organizations elilezer <at> ngtech.co.il