[Dovecot] Encrypted IMAP only from Internet, unencrypted POP3 from internal network

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon May 8 16:29:19 EEST 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:51 +0200, Rainer Frey wrote:
> My idea was:
> - use disable_plaintext_auth for IMAP only
> - use disable_plaintext_auth for internet, but not our networks
> - allow connection from the internet only for certain accounts, and 
> limit them to use encryption
> 
> Internet access for POP3 is not necessary.

Well, Dovecot can't give different settings based on where the
connection comes from (although this is planned for v2.0). For now the
best you could do is:

protocol imap {
  disable_plaintext_auth = yes
}
protocol pop3 {
  disable_plaintext_auth = no
}

At least I think that works.

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