[Dovecot] How to disable pop3 in version 2?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 16:40 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:

> The Ubuntu installation has this line in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file;
> 
> !include_try /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol
> 
> That directory contains one file;
> 
> dovecot-imapd.protocol
> 
> and it contains one line;
> 
> protocols = $protocols imap
> 
> So I am assuming that it is adding imap to the protocols in the 
> environment variable $protocols somehow?

Not environment variable $protocols, but the previous "protocols"
setting's value in dovecot.conf.

> I did get TBird to retrieve mail from port 993 using SSL however.  Will 
> it work without a protocols = imaps?

Yeah, there's no such thing as "imaps protocol". I should never have
included it as a protocol in previous Dovecot versions either..