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

Nathan M locu.lists at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 17:40:22 EEST 2009


On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Timo Sirainen<tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 18:27 -0700, Nathan M wrote:
>> 1. Ideal scenario.  A config option which tells TLS to only respond on
>> certain IPs.  In our case if a connection attempts to initiate TLS on
>> any IP address except 10.0.0.2, it would respond with no TLS support.
>> This would be ideal as we could continue running just a single dovecot
>> instance.
>
> Dovecot v2.0 supports this. I'm hoping to get the first alpha version
> out in a month or two.
>

Timo, that's terrific to hear!! I think we'll just support SSL only
for now, and when 2.0 is stable we can offer SSL+TLS.  Thanks for the
absolutely incredible software.

- N


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