Re: IMAP TLS after upgrade from 3.1.17 to 3.2.3

Reindl Harald <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:59:34 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.dbmail
Organization the lounge interactive design
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Am 14.07.2016 um 13:49 schrieb Admin Beckspaced:
> 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
>>
> just another question:
>
> you wrote "... everybody still using dbmail ..."
>
> what do you mean by 'still'? have you switched to another mail server
> like dovecot, cyrus, ...

me not at the moment but i know people which switched to dovecot due low 
maintainance the last year and ongoing user complaints

> perhaps not satisfied with dbmail?

yes and no - my problem is that i built a ton of admin-backends around 
dbmail and the database schema combined with a lot of automation and so 
it would not be some easy step

> i'm just asking because dbmail is not used by that many system admins.
> and i'm also sometimes worried about the future of dbmail :(
> i'm actually quite happy with dbmail and have been for the last couple
> of years.
>
> but i'm always looking for other peoples insights ;) what's your thought
> on the current status of dbmail and its future?

i hope it will get more love in a forseeable future....

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