[Dovecot] TLS Authentication Confusion

Torsten Krah tkrah at fachschaft.imn.htwk-leipzig.de
Fri Nov 11 20:43:22 EET 2011


Am Freitag, den 11.11.2011, 08:33 -0800 schrieb Knute Johnson:
> So is a STARTTLS on port 143 session somehow superior to using SSL on 
> port 993?  Can you still limit connections on port 143 to require STARTTLS?

Yes you can disable authentication until starttls is issued.

> 
> Thanks,
> 

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