[Dovecot] dnsbl feature for dovecot

John Fawcett john.ml at erba.tv
Wed Jul 3 10:40:04 EEST 2013


On 03/07/13 03:27, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 3.7.2013, at 4.21, John Fawcett <john.ml at erba.tv> wrote:
>
>> dnsbl's are a popular method to prevent listed ips from making
>> connections to mta software.
>>
>> cf. postscreen_dnsbl_sites in postfix
>>
>> Would it be possible to introduce such a feature in dovecot, so that
>> connections can be denied
>> based on a dnsbl lookup (where the precise dnsbls used are configurable)?
> You're talking about IMAP/POP3 connections?
>
> Possible, yeah .. possibly even without code changes by using tcpwrappers.
>
TImo, thanks for the reply. I will look into that suggestion.
John


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