Dear list , SSL encryption is working now :-) the next step of security is securing the authentication. I am using PLAIN and LOGIN. is it secure ? How to securely authenticate ? please enlighten me ? here is my /etc/imapd.conf ------------------------------------------- configdirectory: /var/lib/imap partition-default: /var/spool/imap sievedir: /var/lib/sieve admins: cyrus allowplaintext: yes sasl_minimum_layer: 0 sasl_mech_list: LOGIN PLAIN allowanonymouslogin: no autocreatequota: 10000 reject8bit: no quotawarn: 90 timeout: 30 poptimeout: 10 dracinterval: 0 drachost: localhost sasl_pwcheck_method: saslauthd #auxprop saslauthd #sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb2 servername: linux.kolkatainfoservices.in lmtp_overquota_perm_failure: no lmtp_downcase_rcpt: yes # # if you want TLS, you have to generate certificates and keys # tls_cert_file: /etc/openldap/myca/servercert.pem tls_key_file: /etc/openldap/myca/serverkey.pem tls_ca_file: /etc/openldap/myca/cacert.pem tls_ca_path: /etc/openldap/myca/ #tls_require_cert: no #tlscache_db: berkeley unixhierarchysep: yes virtdomains: yes defaultdomain: kolkatainfoservices.in loginrealms: kolkatainfoservices.in hashimapspool: true lmtpsocket: /var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
