On 10/11/20 1:52 pm, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
Greetings,

On Mon, 2020-11-09 at 23:42 -0600, Raymond Herrera wrote:
> For several years I have been running the following in a Linux
> server.

> Dovecot Version: 2.0.9

> *IMAP:*
> Connection Security: SSL/TLS
> Port: 993
> Authentication Method: Normal Password

> *SMTP:*
> Connection Security: STARTTLS
> Port: 587
> Authentication Method: Normal Password

Pretty standard setup.

Personally I am using Postfix for SMTP/Submission and Dovecot for IMAP
- both with STARTTLS. I use a couple of MX's to actually do the initial
recieving of email, so everything auth related (and adress related) is
in a multi-master LDAP server on each machine. Using Dovetcot-SASL for
SMTP auth too.

> The E-mail client is Thunderbird on Windows.

I my experience pretty much any client works with this setup.


I also use STARTTLS, though I expose that on both IMAP and IMAPS ports, which is consistent with a number of major imap providers.

Selection of ciphers is important. I researched this recently and use this stanza in the configuration

ssl = required
ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.2
ssl_cipher_list = EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers = yes

The defaults in dovecot are shown commented in conf.d/10-ssl.conf. They are not best practice for security.




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