[Dovecot] ldaps support in dovecot-ldap.conf?

[Hugo Monteiro]

Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:11:52AM -0600, Tim Tyler wrote:
>   
>>     Dovecot experts,
>>   Does Dovecot support ldaps:\\ connections in dovecot-ldap.conf for 
>> ldap connections?  I can get regular ldap:\\connections to work, 
>> but  not ldaps:\\ connections.  I have even downloaded the latest 
>> beta version of dovecot and it still doesn't work.  If its not 
>> supported, will it be in the near future?
>>   Note: We are using Centos 5 and Redhat 5 systems.
>>     
>
>
> According to http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/LDAP just set tls=yes in
> your dovecot-ldap.conf.
>
> 	Geert
>
>
>
>   

ldaps:// is not the same as ldap:// with tls support. Also, ldap with 
tls support is preferred to ldaps, but if you really have to use ldaps, 
you can always use stunnel to wrap up the connection in SSL.


Hugo Monteiro.


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