[Dovecot] Feature request

[Johannes Berg]

> Users are retrieving mail using pop3 over the external ip address.
> When the user connects to there webmail. The webmail client 
> (Squirrelmail) is using imap on the localhost.
> I would like to give some users the option to use imap over the external 
> ip, I want to set option in my MySql backend configuration.
> As far as I know there isn't a possible solution on dovecot right now 
> that's why I  hope you can build a extra config parameter that
> gives me the possibility to allow users to retrieve email by imap by ip. 
> So all users can do an imap request on  localhost (for webmail) and some 
> user are allowed to do an imap request over the external ip.

If I understand you correctly, you can do this by having your
authentication query return nothing if they use IMAP unless it was
enabled for them, see the wiki.

johannes
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