[Dovecot] Auth socket can't listen using ssl

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Wed Jan 29 10:13:41 EET 2014


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On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Anthony Bourguignon wrote:

>>> I've tried from localhost and another computer. In both tries, the
>>> connection is made without ssl.
>>
>> Hmm, maybe "internal" sockets do not utilize SSL at all? Just
>> IMAP/POP/ManageSieve?
>>
>
> Maybe. I don't know.
> But that's cleary an issue. I'm trying to use dovecot authentication as
> a backend for prosody (a xmpp server). Dovecot and prosody are not on
> the same host. Sending my password in cleartext on the network is not a
> good option according to me ;) .

The work around would be to use stunnel or something like that.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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