[Dovecot] Listen on several (but not all) Interfaces

alan premselaar alien at 12inch.com
Thu Jun 7 10:31:53 EEST 2007


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On 6/7/07 4:27 PM, Dominik Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using Dovecot 1.0rc15 from Debian stable/etch.
> 
> I'd like to have Dovecot listen on more than one interface. It shall
> listen on one IPv4 Interface and on one IPv6 Interface.
> The comments in the sample configuration file say, that it's not
> possible to listen on more than one interface at a time.
> Sadly it's no option to me to listen on all interfaces.
> 
> So I'd like to ask if there is a chance that Dovecot will support
> listening on several selected interfaces anytime soon?
> 
> Thanks in advance for every helpful reply.
> 
> Best Regards
> Dominik

Dominik,

 I've never done it personally, but I've seen mention of it on the list
previously.  You should be able to run 2 separate instances of dovecot
each configured to listen to one interface individually.

alan
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