[Dovecot] Dovecot + SASL + allow_nets

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Dec 3 16:24:13 EET 2007


On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 14:36 +0100, Marc Cuypers wrote:
> When using dovecot for authentication of an SASL (postfix) request, i 
> cannot use the allow_nets parameter.  The IP-address of the requester is 
> not known in dovecot.
> 
> I would like to allow sasl for certain users, others are not allowed to 
> access via SASL.
> Some users can have access to imap and pop3 from certain IP-addresses.
> 
> How could i combine this in then dovecot configuration?

Since Postfix doesn't send the IP to Dovecot, there isn't anything on
Dovecot's side you can do. You could try asking about this in Postfix
list.. Someone at least had a patch which allowed sending local IP to
Dovecot (http://marc.info/?t=119306971600010&r=1&w=2). Maybe it sends
remote IP as well.

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