Cyrus-IMAP disallowing clear text connections

Anish Mistry amistry at am-productions.biz
Sun Mar 26 22:30:05 UTC 2006


On Sunday 26 March 2006 16:37, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have a Postfix/Cyrus-IMAP setup, Postfix requires TLS and user
> authentication to relay mail, and cyrus requires TLS and user
> authentication to retrieve mail. Or so I thought:
>
> I just tested to see that things were in fact encrypted and
> unencrypted connection was refused, works fine for Postfix but
> Cyrus-IMAP accepts unencrypted connections _and_ authentication
> even though I have set the following in imapd.conf
>
>    allowplaintext: yes
>    allowplainwithouttls: no
>
> How do I force the use of TLS for Cyrus-IMAP?
>
> Also: Postfix allows hiding authentication mechanisms unless TLS is
> invoked (so in clear text, capabilities just show STARTTLS), while
> Cyrus-IMAP announces everything. Is there anyway to be more strict
> with the cyrus in respect of what it announces?
sasl_minimum_layer: 128

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Anish Mistry
amistry at am-productions.biz
AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/
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