On 2011-10-21 8:53 AM, Thomas Eckardt <thomas.ecka...@thockar.com> wrote:
> The SSLFailed cache in assp is a DoS prevention - there is no good reason
> to disable it - even not for privat IP's.

Wasn't suggesting it should be disabled, I was suggesting that maybe 
refusing to continue to offer STARTTLS/SSL because of one, temporary 
'failure' (as happens when Thunderbird prompts the user to accept a 
self-signed cert) is not best practice.

Postfix, Exchange Server, web servers, etc, ALL continue to offer 
STARTTLS/SSL when using Thunderbird, so ASSP should do the same thing.

Maybe limit it to 5 failures, or something like  that, but what it is 
doing now is bad practice.

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

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