Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-15 Thread Stuart Auchterlonie
Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Wednesday, November 14 at 10:51 PM, quoth Marcus Rueckert: rejecting on wrong informations in HELO/EHLO saves me lots of spam. That's a half-baked idea at best, given that you're violating a MUST NOT in the SMTP specification. Plus, how do you judge "wrong"? Hotmail and

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Nikolay Shopik wrote: The IMAP spec does not contain an identification of the client application to the server. There is no "HELO" as in SMTP. And HELO in SMTP is entirely unreliable, unverifiable, and on many servers completel

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Wednesday, November 14 at 10:51 PM, quoth Marcus Rueckert: rejecting on wrong informations in HELO/EHLO saves me lots of spam. That's a half-baked idea at best, given that you're violating a MUST NOT in the SMTP specification. Plus, how do you judge "wrong"? Hotmail and MSN both fail to us

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2007-11-14 13:31:00 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Wednesday, November 14 at 09:35 PM, quoth Nikolay Shopik: > >>And HELO in SMTP is entirely unreliable, unverifiable, and on many > >>servers completely skippable. > >> > >RFC says you SHOULD use FQDN for HELO nothing more. But still you > >ca

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Wednesday, November 14 at 09:15 PM, quoth Timo Sirainen: On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:29 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Wednesday, November 14 at 11:51 AM, quoth Ed W: > Is TLS always performed BEFORE auth with generally available POP/IMAP > clients? .. Technically, there's nothing in the IMAP s

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
On 14.11.2007 22:31, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Wednesday, November 14 at 09:35 PM, quoth Nikolay Shopik: And HELO in SMTP is entirely unreliable, unverifiable, and on many servers completely skippable. RFC says you SHOULD use FQDN for HELO nothing more. But still you can add SPF record for your

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Wednesday, November 14 at 09:35 PM, quoth Nikolay Shopik: And HELO in SMTP is entirely unreliable, unverifiable, and on many servers completely skippable. RFC says you SHOULD use FQDN for HELO nothing more. But still you can add SPF record for your HELO so nobody can foged your server HELO

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:29 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Wednesday, November 14 at 11:51 AM, quoth Ed W: > > Is TLS always performed BEFORE auth with generally available POP/IMAP > > clients? .. > Technically, there's nothing in the IMAP spec that forbids doing it > the other way around, Actu

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
On 14.11.2007 21:30, Kyle Wheeler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, November 14 at 02:18 PM, quoth Steffen Kaiser: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Ed W wrote: Is TLS always performed BEFORE auth with generally available POP/IMAP clients? The IMAP spec does

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, November 14 at 02:18 PM, quoth Steffen Kaiser: >On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Ed W wrote: > >> Is TLS always performed BEFORE auth with generally available POP/IMAP >> clients? > >The IMAP spec does not contain an identification of the client app

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Kyle Wheeler
On Wednesday, November 14 at 11:51 AM, quoth Ed W: Is TLS always performed BEFORE auth with generally available POP/IMAP clients? Yes, because that's generally the entire point of using encryption. After all, what's more important: encrypting your username/password before transmitting it over

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Ed W wrote: Is TLS always performed BEFORE auth with generally available POP/IMAP clients? The IMAP spec does not contain an identification of the client application to the server. There is no "HELO" as in SMTP. Bye, - --

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-14 Thread Ed W
Is TLS always performed BEFORE auth with generally available POP/IMAP clients? Random idea but if there were some way to identify the client BEFORE presenting the certificate then it would be possible to present one of a number of certificates depending on the incoming client (don't fancy

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-13 Thread Nikolay Shopik
Agree with Hugo most root CA have intermidate certificates which should supplied with your server certificate. Otherwise chain won't work and any client don't trust it. - original message - Subject: Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client From: Hugo Monteiro <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-13 Thread Hugo Monteiro
Eli Sand wrote: Hugo Monteiro wrote: Ah ... wildcard certs .. from what i recall, certs issued like *.example.com were not very well accepted by M$ clients. You should test against non wildcard certs and see how it behaves. Already have and no luck :( My domain is elisand.com and I ha

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-13 Thread Eli Sand
Hugo Monteiro wrote: > Ah ... wildcard certs .. from what i recall, certs issued like > *.example.com were not very well accepted by M$ clients. You should > test against non wildcard certs and see how it behaves. Already have and no luck :( My domain is elisand.com and I have tried *.elisand.com

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-13 Thread Hugo Monteiro
Eli Sand wrote: Nikolay Shopik wrote: Usually it works like this. You are configure your mail client to address like this mail.example.com, when mail client establish connection to server and receive certificate it compare CN with current configuration in it. So if you configure connect to mx

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-13 Thread Eli Sand
Nikolay Shopik wrote: > Usually it works like this. You are configure your mail client to > address like this mail.example.com, when mail client establish > connection to server and receive certificate it compare CN with current > configuration in it. So if you configure connect to mx.example.com b

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-13 Thread Nikolay Shopik
On 13.11.2007 22:32, Ed W wrote: Nikolay Shopik wrote: On 13.11.2007 4:22, Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote: Anyone have any solution to this? I also getting a "The target principal name is incorrect." in Outlook 2007 Is this a problem with dovecot? That's probably because you CN doe

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-13 Thread Ed W
Nikolay Shopik wrote: On 13.11.2007 4:22, Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote: Anyone have any solution to this? I also getting a "The target principal name is incorrect." in Outlook 2007 Is this a problem with dovecot? That's probably because you CN doesn't match your server in certifica

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-13 Thread Nikolay Shopik
On 13.11.2007 4:22, Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote: Anyone have any solution to this? I also getting a "The target principal name is incorrect." in Outlook 2007 Is this a problem with dovecot? That's probably because you CN doesn't match your server in certificate. Do you using self-si

[Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-11-12 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
Anyone have any solution to this? I also getting a "The target principal name is incorrect." in Outlook 2007 Is this a problem with dovecot?

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-10-25 Thread Eli Sand
Rick wrote: > You could try the old import trick - do https://mail.elisand.com:993 and > accept the cert in IE. Outlook should then just accept it. Thanks Rick - that's a neat trick I didn't even know/think about. However, after trying it (IE7 doesn't seem to let you save invalid certs btw, in m

Re: [Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-10-25 Thread Rick Romero
You could try the old import trick - do https://mail.elisan.com:993 and accept the cert in IE. Outlook should then just accept it. Rick On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 10:08 -0400, Eli wrote: > I am trying to get TLS to work with Outlook 2007 and I've hit a small > problem. Whenever I start it up, I get

[Dovecot] SSL/TLS with Outlook client

2007-10-25 Thread Eli
I am trying to get TLS to work with Outlook 2007 and I've hit a small problem. Whenever I start it up, I get this error: "The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that cannot be verified. The target principal name is incorrect." (yes/no choice of trusting) I first tried wi