Hello,
i'm using in my installation qmail+vpopmail and now I have migrated from courier-imap to dovecot.
Dovecot is very much faster with large mailbox than courier-imap.
But I have a problem.
vpopmail has a feature that allows you to "Disable non webmail IMAP access", many webmail using imap as if they were, and they are, a client IMAP.
vpopmail give me the ability to disabile IMAP, expect for 127.0.0.1, both for individual users than for single domain. So i can grant IMAP access, from remote client, only for some users but webmail access for all.
Here you can read some of my messages in the vpopmail's list:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vchkpw@inter7.com/msg25880.html
But with dovecot this feature seems not to be compatible.
A friend of the vpopmail's list sent me a patch for dovecot but I can not get it to work:
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Hi Alessio,
i spent over 5 hours looking for a solution to this problem and i found one working for me in dovecot sources edit src/auth/passdb-vpopmail.c
than add
char *remotehost = net_ip2addr(&auth_request->remote_ip); auth_request_log_info(auth_request, "vpopmail", "remote ip is: %s", remotehost);
before if (((vpw->pw_gid & NO_IMAP) != 0 && line
than modify the condition line to look like:
if (((vpw->pw_gid & NO_IMAP) != 0 && strcmp(auth_request->service, "IMAP") == 0 *&& strcmp(remotehost, "127.0.0.1") != 0*) || ((vpw->pw_gid & NO_POP) != 0 && strcmp(auth_request->service, "POP3") == 0)) { auth_request_log_info(auth_request, "vpopmail", "%s disabled", auth_request->service); password = NULL; *result_r = PASSDB_RESULT_USER_DISABLED; } else ...............
this way you will preserve webmail access and cut imap from external in case -i limit is defined in vpopmail
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Can someone help me in making compatible this useful feature of vpopmail with dovecot?
Thank you
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