Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-18 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 18 Mar 2013, Steffen Kaiser wrote: I create a profile manually, import our self-signed root CA cert,& copy the cert8.db to \defaults\profile\cert8.db . For notebooks and workstations, that are not administrated centrally, there is are instal

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-18 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: You simply can't do account auto configuration with a self signed cert, at least not with a vanilla TB setup. The only possible solution I can think of would be to preload the user profile with the certific

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-18 Thread Ed W
On 18/03/2013 03:10, Alex wrote: https://www.rapidsslonline.com/ less than $20/year, takes literally 15 minutes from start to having a certificate. Well, maybe 30 minutes the first time when you need to read everything. There are probably dozens of other sites offering similar services; I've us

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-17 Thread Alex
>> https://www.rapidsslonline.com/ >> less than $20/year, takes literally 15 minutes from start to having >> a certificate. Well, maybe 30 minutes the first time when you need >> to read everything. >> >> There are probably dozens of other sites offering similar services; >> I've used this one sev

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-16 Thread Ed W
On 14/03/2013 03:36, Noel wrote: https://www.rapidsslonline.com/ less than $20/year, takes literally 15 minutes from start to having a certificate. Well, maybe 30 minutes the first time when you need to read everything. There are probably dozens of other sites offering similar services; I've u

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Noel
On 3/13/2013 10:23 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > >>> Can someone else confirm that restarting Thunderbird is a way around >>> having to manually import the certs or change them later through the >>> account settings menu? >>> >>> Does anyone have any experience with configuring Outlook to use >>> self-si

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Can someone else confirm that restarting Thunderbird is a way around >> having to manually import the certs or change them later through the >> account settings menu? >> >> Does anyone have any experience with configuring Outlook to use >> self-signed certs? > > > This sounds like you're wo

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Noel
On 3/13/2013 9:38 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi guys, > It's relatively easy. On first starting TB with no account, cancel the wizard. The use "Edit" -> "Preferences" or "≡" -> "Options..." -> "Options..." to get to TB's configuration pages. There, use "Advanced" -> "Certificates" ->

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Simon Brereton
On 14 Mar 2013 03:38, "Alex" wrote: > > Hi guys, > > >>> It's relatively easy. On first starting TB with no account, cancel the > >>> wizard. The use "Edit" -> "Preferences" or "≡" -> "Options..." -> > >>> "Options..." to get to TB's configuration pages. There, use "Advanced" > >>> -> "Certific

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Alex
Hi guys, >>> It's relatively easy. On first starting TB with no account, cancel the >>> wizard. The use "Edit" -> "Preferences" or "≡" -> "Options..." -> >>> "Options..." to get to TB's configuration pages. There, use "Advanced" >>> -> "Certificates" -> "View Certificates" -> "Servers" and fina

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Alex
Hi guys, >> It's relatively easy. On first starting TB with no account, cancel the >> wizard. The use "Edit" -> "Preferences" or "≡" -> "Options..." -> >> "Options..." to get to TB's configuration pages. There, use "Advanced" >> -> "Certificates" -> "View Certificates" -> "Servers" and finally

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/13/2013 8:01 AM, Phil Turmel wrote: > On 03/13/2013 01:51 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 3/13/2013 12:00 AM, Alex wrote: > >> I just verified that TB (17.0.4) won't do STARTTLS on TCP 143 without >> first accepting the self signed cert. >> >>> I'm really hoping someone can help me to clarify

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Phil Turmel
On 03/13/2013 01:51 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 3/13/2013 12:00 AM, Alex wrote: > I just verified that TB (17.0.4) won't do STARTTLS on TCP 143 without > first accepting the self signed cert. > >> I'm really hoping someone can help me to clarify more specifically >> what's going on here. > > Y

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Charles Marcus
Interesting, thanks Prof. Looks like I have some experimenting to do to see what about:config options this sets, so I can add them to my list. On 2013-03-13 2:31 AM, Professa Dementia wrote: I just verified that TB (17.0.4) won't do STARTTLS on TCP 143 without first accepting the self sign

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-03-13 12:37 AM, Alex wrote: Is it conventional to use port 143 for encrypted IMAP connections these days, and not just 993? Port 143 uses STARTTLS, port 993 uses SSL/TLS... been that way for a long time, and yes there is a (slight) difference. STARTTLS *begins* as an unencrypted sessi

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-12 Thread Professa Dementia
I just verified that TB (17.0.4) won't do STARTTLS on TCP 143 without first accepting the self signed cert. I'm really hoping someone can help me to clarify more specifically what's going on here. You've already clarified it. You simply can't do account auto configuration with a self signed

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 3/13/2013 12:00 AM, Alex wrote: > Hi, Hi "Alex" >> I have an fc18 system with postfix and dovecot-2.1.13 and have >> configured them to use sasl for SMTP Auth and Maildir with imaps. >> >> The system is running now, so I'm trying to set up thunderbird to >> autodetect all settings during the i

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-12 Thread Alex
Hi, > I have an fc18 system with postfix and dovecot-2.1.13 and have > configured them to use sasl for SMTP Auth and Maildir with imaps. > > The system is running now, so I'm trying to set up thunderbird to > autodetect all settings during the initial account setup. However, it > seems to want to

[Dovecot] Dovecot with sasl/imaps/postfix and thunderbird

2013-03-12 Thread Alex
Hi, I have an fc18 system with postfix and dovecot-2.1.13 and have configured them to use sasl for SMTP Auth and Maildir with imaps. The system is running now, so I'm trying to set up thunderbird to autodetect all settings during the initial account setup. However, it seems to want to use port 14