On 1/15/2009, Durk Strooisma (durk@kern.nl) wrote:
As far as I can see, this would only be possible when using imaps and disabling imap. However, I would like to have the other way around; disabling imaps and using imap for all communication (with enforced STARTTLS). Am I missing something?
Yes... an explanation for why you want/need to do this...
Simple, but debatable I guess. For some it might sound cosmetic. That's why I didn't bring it up in the first place.
Okay, so here's the explanation. In our infrastructure we like to use native encryption for (internet) protocols. Partly because it seems the "right way" and partly because the other method (tunneling) is deprecated for some protocols (e.g. LDAP). We don't need to support a huge range of client applications, so this is compatability-wise no issue. To keep our infrastructure a bit uniform, I've tried this with Dovecot/IMAP as well. I've tried to enforce STARTTLS for any possible connection, to avoid using tunneling, but I couldn't find an option to do so.
Durk