I recently just inherited a very old installation of courier and began the process of bringing it out of the dark ages.
For the time being, it has no TLS and I am tasked with simply brining the pop3 and imap services up to date. Later, I'll enable SSL. The platform is FreeBSD 4-STABLE and upgrading to courier-imap 4.1.1 from the packages collection. There were no problems getting the authlibs running on different sockets so I can test both the new and old in parallel. However I noticed a slight change in the CAPA output: old: +OK Hello there. CAPA +OK Here's what I can do: TOP USER LOGIN-DELAY 10 PIPELINING UIDL IMPLEMENTATION Courier Mail Server new: +OK Hello there. CAPA +OK Here's what I can do: STLS TOP USER LOGIN-DELAY 10 PIPELINING UIDL IMPLEMENTATION Courier Mail Server Being a somewhat pedantic postmaster, I tried briefly to disable the STLS offering so as to streamline the transition and make it transparent to the thousands of users. However I had no luck and went live with the transtion. A very small number of clients (Eudora for sure; maybe Outlook Express) reported they could "no longer connect securely". Which baffled me since I'd already verified we had no TLS anywhere. After some head-scratching, I finally got one user to disable the *attempt* to use security and his problems went away. Apparently Eudora led him to believe that TLS was in effect, when it was mererly attempting to do so. Which never produced any errors on the old courier that never offered STLS as a capability. However, the new courier says it can do STLS when it actually cannot. Nor do I wish to. At a *later* date, I will generate the proper STARTTLS config/daemon running on the proper pop3s port. How on earth do I positivly disable the STLS CAPA on POP3? Or is this really just a FreeBSD packaging issue? ../C ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
