Problem logging in during testing

Steve Matzura number6 at noisynotes.com
Mon Jun 15 23:29:16 UTC 2015


On Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:26:28 +0200, I wrote:

>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
>> IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN] Dovecot ready.
>> a login <my-username> <my-password>
>> a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
>> IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS
>> THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND URL-PARTIAL CATENATE UNSELECT
>> CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE 
>> QRESYNC
>> ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS BINARY MOVE
>> SPECIAL-USE] Logged in
>> a logout
>> * BYE Logging out
>> a OK Logout completed.
>> Connection closed by foreign host.

Then Alex wrote:

>It looks like you don't enforce SSL/TLS.
>If you don't have any clients which are many years old you should do
>that.
>But of course it'S your own decision if you want your users passwords
>(and everything else) sent to your server in clear text over the wire

Not sure about the age of my clients' mail programs, but I have
ssl=required in 10-ssl.conf. Need more to lock it down?


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