[Dovecot] dovecot and tcpwrappers

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 14:16 +0200, Kees Lemmens wrote:

> Since yesterday I have dovecot 2.0.13. But in version 2.0.13 it seems
> that starting using inetd doesn't work anymore : I only get a strange
> error message if I try to connect using telnet :

Yeah, won't work.

> Is dovecot indeed ignoring hosts.allow/deny ? 

Yes. But you can enable tcpwrappers with:

login_access_sockets = tcpwrap

> BTW: I tried to post on the mailinglist but it seems I can't access
> them it the moment, altough I did subscribe and login. Is there
> anything wrong ?

Nothing's wrong as far as I know..