[Dovecot] TLS / SSL mixed w/ plaintext auth and virtual hosting

[Michael Orlitzky]

Nathan M wrote:
> Traditionally this server has only accepted plaintext authentications;
> however, we want to change that and enable TLS/SSL.  The challenge is
> the server has hundreds of IP addresses it binds to to listen on ports
> 110/143.

It may be 3am, but I'm pretty sure that this is the part of your setup 
that doesn't make sense. Why does your POP/IMAP server need to be 
accessed via so many addresses?