[Dovecot] allow_nets

[Pascal Volk]

On 28.02.2009 15:33 CJ Teets wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Im using Ubuntu 8.10 with Dovecot 1.0.10.
> 
> I am using passwd files, not a MySQL database.
> 
> I have 2 files, a "users" file, and a "passwd" file.
> 
> I have added:
> 
> allow_nets=10.1.10.1 to the end of a specific users entry in the users file.
> 
> When that user tries to login, I get the following in the logs:
> 
> dovecot: 2009-02-28 09:06:59 Error: IMAP(bob at mydomain.com): Ambiguous mail
> location setting, don't know what to do with it: allow_nets=10.1.10.1 (try
> prefixing it with mbox: or maildir:)
> dovecot: 2009-02-28 09:06:59 Error: IMAP(boo at mydomain.com): Mail storage
> creation failed with mail_location: allow_nets=10.1.10.1
> dovecot: 2009-02-28 09:06:59 Error: child 4174 (imap) returned error 89
> 
> here is the line from my users file:
> 
> bob at mydomain.com::5000:5000::/home/vmail/
> mydomain.com/
> 
> here is the corresponding line from the passwd file:
> 
> bob at oldschoolpunk.com:$1$evcHgrbC$BuyQRCspMzTpD8zkphxo0/
> 
> 
> My goal is, that I want to allow this user to check email ONLY from the IP
> specified (i.e. 10.1.10.1)
> 
> I just can't seem to get this working...
> Am I going about something the wrong way?

You didn't read the end of http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserDatabase/ExtraFields
Try ...:/bin/false::userdb_allow_nets=10.1.10.1


Regards,
Pascal
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