[Dovecot] Disable TLS on port 143?

John Peacock jpeacock at rowman.com
Tue Jan 9 20:28:30 UTC 2007


Brian Morrison wrote:
> 
> http://www.cacert.org
> 

How many older mail clients have the CACert trusted root installed? 
 From the CACert FAQ:

> Why a CAcert-signed certificate better than a self-signed?
> 
> Even though we're not included by default in main stream browsers a
> number of linux distributions are already including us in their
> builds of Mozilla and other browsers/email clients.

This would not be a 100% painless upgrade, whereas buying a cert from a 
Geotrust partner would be cheap insurance that most clients, even a few 
years old, would see no warning...

John

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