[Dovecot] Encrypted IMAP only from Internet, unencrypted POP3 from internal network

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon May 8 17:50:26 EEST 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:34 +0200, Rainer Frey wrote:
> Phew - good point. I just checked with a test installation and KMail an 
> Thunderbird. KMAil and Thunderbird 1.0.8 both ask for CAPABILITY, 
> Dovecot sends (among others) LOGINDISABLED, and both send a login 
> command with cleartext password nontheless.

Reporting it as a kmail bug could be a good idea..

> Thunderbird 1.5 does not try this, it sends logout after it retrieves 
> the LOGINDISABLED capability.

But then again Thunderbird 1.5 can't understand that after STARTTLS the
LOGINDISABLED capability isn't there anymore..
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