[Dovecot] SSL / TLS

[Timo Sirainen]

On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Charles Marcus wrote:

> On 7/9/2009, Federico Nicolelli (federico.nicolelli at iscsi.it) wrote:
>> Ok, so if you set
>> "protocols = imap imaps"
>
> Personally, I never enable unencrypted imap port...
>
> Forcing encrypted port (imaps) for everyone really doesn't add  
> anything
> in the way of overhead on modern systems, and I just don't like the  
> idea
> of unencrypted sessions, even on on 'trusted' networks.

That's a wrong way to think about it. imaps is a legacy port that  
should have died years ago. You can force encrypted sessions on imap  
port just by setting disable_plaintext_auth=yes (or even more strongly  
with ssl=required with v1.2+).