The underlying reason is that I am using a very small machine (and AMD-350), which I have set-up to be fanless., and which is running, appart from the mail server for my family, a couple of webservers, owncloud' instances, etc. So, I thought that I could free it from some work by disabling the encryption in the roundcube.
Regards! Felix On Friday 21 June 2013 22:17:49 b...@bitrate.net wrote: > On Jun 21, 2013, at 03.50, Felix Rubio Dalmau <felixrubiodal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry for disturbing you, Ben > > > > Thank you for your answer, but there is one point I don't fully get: If I > > > > set up an smtp [25] to offer encryption without auth, a submission [587] > > to > > require encryption and auth, and I want roundcube to access the mail > > server > > with auth but without encryption.... I am stuck at the same point, right? > > > > Finally, I have configured smtp [25] to offer encryption, and auth only > > > > under tls. I have also set up a submission [587] without encryption, > > requiring auth, for roundcube. Finally I have closed port 587 using > > iptables, so can be used only through the loopback interface. > > let's please keep the discussion on the list, so others may participate. > > the key here is the "I want roundcube to access the mail server with auth > but without encryption". why bother? roundcube happily performs > encryption just fine, it hurts nothing to do it, and it obviates the need > for unnecessary special treatment. > > you should not be offering auth on port 25, encryption or not. we don't > need to get into all of the corner cases or special use cases, but far and > away, for the average environment, auth is for clients, and clients are to > use port submission/587. if you're using submission/587 for roundcube only > [as you seem to indicate], then why go to all of the trouble to > intentionally disable encryption when it works just fine? > > -ben
