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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