[Dovecot] How to deny access from some ip or network

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 16 18:28:15 EEST 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 13:11 +0200, Christian Schmidt wrote:
> Hello Marcus,
> 
> Marcus Rueckert, 12.10.2005 (d.m.y):
> 
> > On 2005-10-12 12:05:20 +0200, Jakob Curdes wrote:
> > > or man hosts.deny ... if you are running tcpd as tcp-wrapper.
> > 
> > dovecot doesnt support tcpd.h
> 
> Does that mean that a line like
> imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/libexec/imap-login
> in /etc/inetd.conf will not make dovecot be "secured" by tcpd?
> 
> I found some mails in the archives dealing with this stuff, but maybe
> didn't get the message completely...

Running Dovecot via inetd makes it secured by tcpd.

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