Securing postfix to dovecot (SASL) auth

Aki Tuomi
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 11:11:55 -0000

On 27.09.2017 13:21, Peter wrote:
> On 27/09/17 20:35, Thomas Bauer wrote:
>> service auth {
>>   inet_listener{
>>     address=192.0.0.1
>>     port=10001
>>     ssl=yes
>> }
>> }
> ssl=yes is not documented to work for the auth service and it's highly
> likely that it is simply ignored.

It is documented for inet_listener's in general and is not ignored. Any
dovecot inet_listener can be given this flag.

You could use stunnel on the other end.

Aki