Re: IMAP TLS after upgrade from 3.1.17 to 3.2.3

Admin Beckspaced <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:29:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.dbmail
Organization Beckspaced
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 12.07.2016 um 16:24 schrieb Admin Beckspaced:
>> i just upgraded dbmail from 3.1.17 to most recent stable 3.2.3
>>
>> with the old version 3.1.17 i could do an IMAP account setup in
>> thunderbird with SSL/TLS on port 993
>>
>> with the new version 3.2.3 thunderbird now throws me an error that this
>> connection type is not supported by the IMAP server.
>> if i then switch to STARTTLS on port 143 all is working fine.
>>
>> before i start into debugging this on my server ...
>>
>> is this the expected behavior with the IMAP TLS setup in 3.2.3?
>> is SSL/TLS on port 993 not supported?
>> is STARTTLS on port 143 the only supported encryption?
>>
>> if not ... how can i best debug this issue? what do i need to do to make
>> SSL/TLS on port 993 work again?
> just run a proxy in front of dbmail like dovecot (i guess nearly
> everybody still using dbmail does that for a long time to avoid
> different troubles)
>
> that way dbmail has no need to deal with anything in context of TLS and
> 143 with STATTLS as well as 993 with the wrapper work and the same for POP3
>
thanks for your reply and the hint of using dovecot as a proxy in front 
of dbmail.

could you perhaps point me to a proper and up-to-date how to? working 
config file?

that would be awesome ;)

thanks & greetings
becki