[Dovecot] Dynamic server address

Kresimir Tonkovic kresimir.tonkovic at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 12:26:36 EEST 2006


On 8/8/06, Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> Kresimir Tonkovic wrote:
> > I assumed pop3s is pop3+ssl is pop3 over ssl.
> Yes, it is, but pop3s uses a different port than pop3. Try netstat -ltnp
> on your server :)
> pop3+tls is the recommended way of doing encryption now, which uses the
> same port as pop3 (110) but has a special STLS (I think) command to
> "upgrade" an unencrypted connection to a secure one.
> > protocols > > pop3_listen > > pop3s_listen > Just change that to
> pop3s_listen > and you should be fine completely if you want to continue using pop3s.
> If you want to switch to pop3+tls then you don't need pop3s at all.
>
> johannes
>

Ok, if I switch to pop3+tls, how do I configure that in email clients? It
seems that if I check "use SSL" in Outlook, Evolution, they connect to port
995 (pop3s).
-- 
kresho
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