[Dovecot] Choose client
Chris Wakelin
c.d.wakelin at reading.ac.uk
Wed Nov 30 11:42:28 EET 2005
Jon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to make dovecot to only accept
> connections from specific clients such as Thunderbird on Squirrelmail an
> deny access to Outlook (as it creates folders) etc..
>
> /jon
Probably not. The trouble is the IMAP (or POP, AFAIK) protocol doesn't
really give the client a chance to identify itself in the way that, say,
HTTP does. The only thing you could do is try to identify a client by
some sort of "signature" usage of IMAP commands which would be
unreliable, and a lot of work, besides!
Best Wishes,
Chris
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