iredmail-doc/howto/2-allow.insecure.pop3.imap.smtp.connections.md

# Allow insecure POP3/IMAP/SMTP connections without STARTTLS

With default iRedMail setting, all clients are forced to use POP3/IMAP/SMTP
services over STARTTLS for for better security by default. If your mail clients
try to access mailbox via protocol POP3 (port 110) or IMAP (port 143) without
TLS support, you will get error message like below:

```
Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure (SSL/TLS) connections
```

## Allow insecure POP3/IMAP connections

If you want to enable POP3/IMAPS without STARTTLS for some reason (again, not
recommended), please update below two parameters in Dovecot config file
`dovecot.conf` and restart Dovecot service:

* on Linux and OpenBSD, it's `/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf`
* on FreeBSD, it's `/usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf`

```
disable_plaintext_auth=no
ssl=yes
```

Again, it's strongly recommended to use only POP3S/IMAPS for better security.

Default and recommended setting configured by iRedMail is:

```
disable_plaintext_auth=yes
ssl=required
```

## Allow insecure SMTP connection

Please comment out below line in Postfix config file `/etc/postfix/main.cf`
and reload or restart Postfix service:

```
smtpd_tls_auth_only=yes
```