Question about verbose_proctitle

[J Doe]

> On Jul 12, 2018, at 9:23 PM, Gedalya <gedalya at gedalya.net> wrote:
> 
> On 07/13/2018 08:45 AM, J Doe wrote:
>> I’m aware that this is because the code does not state to specify “TLS” for the dovecot/imap [user at example.com <mailto:user at example.com> 1.2.3.4 IDLE] line of output, but I’m curious as to why that decision was made ?
> 
> TLS is done by the imap-login process. This process does all the actual talking to the client. The imap process blindly trusts whoever invoked it (imap-login), it doesn't authenticate the user either. Timo didn't want any crypto or authentication code, or to link against any such libraries in the imap process itself.
> 
> Your imap-login process does show TLS and this can be logged in the log file as well, see login_log_format_elements and the variables %c and %k

Hi Gedalya,

Ah, ok - that makes sense.

Thanks also for pointing me to the login_log_format_elements parameter - I will read up on this.

- J

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