identify 143 vs 993 clients

Markus Winkler ml at irmawi.de
Tue May 26 11:25:03 EEST 2020


Hi,

On 26.05.20 09:21, mj wrote:
> One doubt I had: "disable_plaintext_auth = yes" sounds as if only the 
> authentication part is secured, and the rest is kept plain text, whereas 
> with 993/SSL, *everything* would be encrypted?
> 
> Or am I missing something? (then perhaps someone can point it out?)

here you can read the details:

https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/ssl/dovecot_configuration/

"There are a couple of different ways to specify when SSL/TLS is required:
[...]"

Regards,
Markus


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