On 7/5/05, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 7/5/05, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Matt Morgan writes: > > > > >> Another way to do this is to install an IMAP proxy on your intermediary > > >> server. It's going to accept imaps connections (and your SSL cert will be > > >> installed on the intermediary server itself), then turn around and forward > > >> those connections to your real IMAP server. There's very little benefit in > > >> encrypting the proxied connection of your LAN, so the forwarded connection > > >> can be non-encrypted. > > > > > > Thanks! This sounds like the way we'd want to do it. Is IMAP proxying > > > something Courier can do, or is an IMAP proxy something different? > > > > Courier can proxy IMAP connections. > > Thanks. I googled, too, and also found > > http://www.horde.org/imapproxy/ > http://www.imapproxy.org/ > > which sound similar. (I have a tendency to get excited and write back > first, then google afterward ... but again, thanks for clueing me in!) OK, I read up some more. Apparently, I'm clueless. I understand now that IMAPS is old-fashioned and the right way to do encrypted imap is IMAP (on port 143) with STARTTLS. Correct? This is new to me and I'm not sure I'm on the right path. Thanks.
