[Dovecot] Restricting Services (POP or IMAP)

[Rui Lopes]

Odhiambo WASHINGTON wrote:
> It would be great to have a HOWTO in the wiki, on how to restrict 
> services by username in dovecot, so some users are allowed IMAP
> and others not allowed.
> 
> As concerns restricting users by IP, I believe that is a bad idea.
> It's almost a useless idea, imnsho, because they can connect from
> another IP.
> It's easy to restrict services by IP using a firewall or by using
> inetd.

That can be done, at least, with a SQL passwd db, see:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication/RestrictAccess

	-- Rui Lopes