[Dovecot] very frequent disconnections

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Oct 9 23:47:34 EEST 2009


On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 16:09 -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
> The very frequent dropped connections don't happen if I don't use TLS.
> To summarize:
> 
> - they happen with TLS to port 143
> - they don't happen with a plain connection to port 143
> - they don't happen with a TLS connection to port 11143

This clearly indicates some firewall/antivirus/IDS in the middle
believing that port 143 only has plaintext traffic and then get entirely
confused when they see TLS traffic and at some point decide to kill the
connection. I guess using imaps on port 993 would also fix it?
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