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

Joseba Torre joseba.torre at ehu.es
Mon May 8 17:17:23 EEST 2006


El Monday, 8 de Mayo de 2006 15:36, Rainer Frey escribió:
> On Monday 08 May 2006 15:29, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 09:51 +0200, Rainer Frey wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Thanks, I'll try that. If it doesn't work, I can still revert to Les'
> suggestion.

And, if that doesn't work, you can always play a little bit with your 
firewall rules. Not the best way to go, but really easy: enable pop3 
and imaps in dovecot, then limit the access to the related ports in the 
firewall.

Aaaaaaaaaaagur.


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