Hi: I'm running dovecot on a Fedora 3 box and would like to be able to make a TLS connection to it with my Pegasus Mail program running on my Winblows machine. Does anybody know if it is possible? If it is I could really use some help configuring my dovecot. I have tried for several days but I really don't know what I'm doing and need a direction to start. Thanks, -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
Hi,
Attached are my quick notes on port settings and how to do by-hand
tests of connections to see if pop/imap worked, unencrypted and with
SSL. By-hand tests are a good place to start before dragging a mail
client into the picture.
Jeff Earickson
Colby College
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Knute Johnson wrote:
> Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 14:19:19 -0700
> From: Knute Johnson <knute at frazmtn.com>
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: [Dovecot] Help configuring dovecot for SSL
>
> Hi:
>
> I'm running dovecot on a Fedora 3 box and would like to be able to
> make a TLS connection to it with my Pegasus Mail program running on
> my Winblows machine. Does anybody know if it is possible?
>
> If it is I could really use some help configuring my dovecot. I have
> tried for several days but I really don't know what I'm doing and
> need a direction to start.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
> Knute Johnson
> Molon Labe...
>
>
>
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Port numbers
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pop3: 110 pop3s: 995
imap: 143 imaps: 993
The file ssl.pop3 shows how to do a connect to a remote
host using SSL, for testing. Likewise, ssl.imaps is for SSL imap.
sample transactions
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pop3: (unencrypted)
telnet myhost 110
user joeblow
pass passwd
list
quit
pop3s: (SSL encrypted)
openssl s_client -debug -connect myhost:995
(you will see SSL stuff go by, then)
user joeblow
pass passwd
list
quit
imap: (unencypted)
telnet myhost 143
xxx login joeblow passwd
xxx select inbox
xxx logout
imaps: (SSL encrypted)
openssl s_client -debug -connect myhost:993
(you will see SSL stuff go by, then)
xxx login joeblow passwd
xxx select inbox
xxx logout
Jeff: Thanks very much. Sometimes the littlest things can get you going. The tests all worked perfectly so it had to be in my mail client. Turns out I had it configured for STARTTLS and it needed to be plain SSL. Anyway I'm up and running. Thanks again, knute..>Hi, > Attached are my quick notes on port settings and how to do by-hand >tests of connections to see if pop/imap worked, unencrypted and with >SSL. By-hand tests are a good place to start before dragging a mail >client into the picture. > >Jeff Earickson >Colby College > >On Tue, 3 May 2005, Knute Johnson wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 14:19:19 -0700 >> From: Knute Johnson <knute at frazmtn.com> >> To: dovecot at dovecot.org >> Subject: [Dovecot] Help configuring dovecot for SSL >> >> Hi: >> >> I'm running dovecot on a Fedora 3 box and would like to be able to >> make a TLS connection to it with my Pegasus Mail program running on >> my Winblows machine. Does anybody know if it is possible? >> >> If it is I could really use some help configuring my dovecot. I >> have tried for several days but I really don't know what I'm doing >> and need a direction to start. >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> -- >> Knute Johnson >> Molon Labe... >> >> >>-- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...