[Dovecot] Restrict clients access during mailboxes convertion ?

[Frank Bonnet]

On 03/25/2011 04:34 PM, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Is there a way to restrict access to Dovecot server during
> mailboxes convertion ?
> 
> I need dovecot to be running to convert mailboxes from
> a format to another, but I would like to block all our
> LAN clients until the end of convertion.
> 
> If there is no internal Dovecot mechanism I will use
> some firewall rule on the server.
> 
> Thanks
> 

finally is it more useful to put all users
in /etc/dovecot.deny.* files.
fast and easy.