Re: STARTTLS Question

From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 17:01:05 EDT


Daniel Whelan wrote:

> I'm currently operating a Cyrus server listening in the following
> configuration, and authenticating via PLAIN/LOGIN with a saslauthd
> backend (only relevant config lines listed):
>
> imap cmd="imapd -U 30" listen="localhost:imap"
> imaps cmd="imapd -s -U 30" listen="imaps"
> pop3s cmd="pop3d -s -U 30" listen="pop3s"
>
> The IMAPS and POP3S ports are for user interaction, and the IMAP port is
> for the local webmail client (which operates over apache and mod_ssl). I
> don't wish to offer any services in an unencrypted format.
>
> My question is, can I offer the IMAP port to any client but configure it
> such that they are required to STARTTLS to communicate?

Assuming that you want to prevent plaintext passwords from being
transmitted in the clear, set the following in imapd.conf:

allowplaintext: no

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