Dovecot LMTP Proxy + STARTTLS?

Matt Bryant matt.bryant at staff.atmail.com
Thu Nov 23 12:11:42 EET 2017


Not according to dovecot doco ... from
https://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy

*NOTE: LMTP/doveadm proxying doesn't support SSL/TLS currently - any
ssl/starttls extra field is ignored

*rgds

Matt


> Tobi <mailto:tobisworld at gmail.com>
> 23 November 2017 at 6:31 pm
> Hi
>
> I got dovecot 2.2.26 on a Centos7 with latest updates. Dovecot is
> configured to act as director and delivers to my two backend servers.
> I enabled lmtp proxy on director to listen on port 24.
>
> Now I see in msg headers that the connection to the lmtp proxy uses
> STARTTLS but the connection from proxy to backend seems to be
> unencrypted. Is it possible to enforce the use of STARTTLS in the
> connection from the director to the backend as well?
>
> Regards
>
> tobi



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