[Dovecot] How to disable pop3 in version 2?

[Knute Johnson]

On 11/23/2011 3:25 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 16:40 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
>
>> The Ubuntu installation has this line in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file;
>>
>> !include_try /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol
>>
>> That directory contains one file;
>>
>> dovecot-imapd.protocol
>>
>> and it contains one line;
>>
>> protocols = $protocols imap
>>
>> So I am assuming that it is adding imap to the protocols in the
>> environment variable $protocols somehow?
>
> Not environment variable $protocols, but the previous "protocols"
> setting's value in dovecot.conf.
>
>> I did get TBird to retrieve mail from port 993 using SSL however.  Will
>> it work without a protocols = imaps?
>
> Yeah, there's no such thing as "imaps protocol". I should never have
> included it as a protocol in previous Dovecot versions either..
>

Thanks very much Timo!

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Knute Johnson