Re: TLS fails on imaps port

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On 01/24/2010 10:39 AM, Bob Dye wrote:
> Joseph Brennan wrote:
>> --On Saturday, January 23, 2010 4:54 PM -0800 Bob Dye
>> <bobdye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm running Cyrus-imapd 2.3.7 on a Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 system.
>>>
>>> TLS works fine if I connect to the imap port (143). If I try to connect
>>> instead via the imaps port (993), the attempt times out and I get the
>>> following in the log:
>>>
>>> imaps[27170]: imaps TLS negotiation failed: [xx.xx.xx.xx]
>>> imaps[27170]: Fatal error: tls_start_servertls() failed
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Normal.  It should fail.  993 requires SSL.
>>
>>
>> Joseph Brennan
>> Columbia University Information Technology
>>
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> 993 (the port) does not require SSL. The official IANA definition is
> "imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL".
>
> Perhaps you're saying that Cyrus-imapd only supports SSL on 993 for some
> reason?

Assuming you are running imapd -s on port 993, from the man page for imapd:

-s     Serve IMAP over SSL (imaps).  All data to and from imapd is 
encrypted using the Secure Sockets Layer.




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