# Allow insecure POP3/IMAP/SMTP connections without STARTTLS

!!! attention

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With default iRedMail setting, all clients are forced to use POP3/IMAP/SMTP
services over STARTTLS for secure connections. If your mail clients
try to access mailbox via protocol POP3/IMAP without TLS support, you will
get error message like below:

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

This tutorial describes how to allow insecure connection for daily use.

!!! note

    If you just have 1 or few network devices like printer, firewall need to
    send email with insecure connection, please follow this tutorial instead:
    [Allow internal network devices to send email with insecure connection](./additional.smtp.port.html).

## Allow insecure POP3/IMAP connections

If you want to enable POP3/IMAP services without STARTTLS for some reason
(again, not recommended), please update below two parameters in Dovecot config
file `/etc/dovecot/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 on port 25

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

```
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

# force all clients to use secure connection through port 25
#smtpd_tls_auth_only=yes
```

