Re: imap

[Patrick Dreker <patrick@dreker.de>]

Am Wednesday 01 August 2001 19:01 schrieb Patrick Mulvany:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:38:29PM +0000, Jim Breton wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 01:54:03PM -0700, Stephen Hassard wrote:
> > > I was just playing around securing one of my Exchange boxes, and found
> > > that coupling Stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/) with your favourite
> > > mail server works really well (not that Exchange is my pick for a
> > > secure mail server)
> >
> > Indeed, I have been doing exactly that and it works great.  I run Solar
> > Designer's 'popa3d' on port 110 for those users which do not have
> > clients supporting TLS, but those who do are encouraged to use the
> > POP3/TLS running on port 995 which is really just an stunnel to port 110
> > on the same machine.  Outlook Express and many other clients have
> > built-in support for this so there is very little tech support overhead.
>
> I am currently investigating a similar issue but using imap. Has anyone any
> suggestions relating to a non-exploitable imap server that impliments TLS
> encryptions. imapd appears to impliment encrypted authentication but what I
> need is encrypted transfer which is not in the debian packaged version.
I had a mailserver running using an standard IMAP Server combined with 
stunnel. It worked like a charm, no obvious problems and even the Windows 
Clients (Outlook and Outlook Express) had no trouble using this.

Beware though: I made a silly mistake in configuring this setup and forgot to 
move the IMAPs service to port 995 (IIRC) instead of the default 143...

> Thanks
> Paddy

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