[Dovecot] IP Based Access

[Simon Waters]

On Sunday 26 Jun 2005 11:21 am, matthieu imbert wrote:
> kasharif at citech-bd.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Can someone tell me how can I restrict 110 port access other than my IP
> > block?
> > if it through tcp-wrapper then how can i do that?
>
> i would do it with netfilter/iptables (assuming you're on linux, with a
> recent enough distribution. Under bsd, use ipfilter, it's similar)

I'd probably use xinetd option "only_from" to achieve the same effect.

Not least because xinetd offers other options to control (and in particular to 
prevent run away) resource usage.

But then the server here is behind a firewall, so I had to open that to allow 
access.