[Dovecot] SSL only for external connections

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at curecanti.org
Fri Sep 30 22:39:40 EEST 2011


Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:

> But the question remains - if only because it's now there - how does  
> one limit services effectively in Dovecot.  In Courier it was fairly  
> easy and well documented.  There's no reason for me to offer IMAPS  
> or POP3S to localhost (because of the certificate issue) and there's  
> also no reason for me to offer POP3 to localhost either.
>
> For posterity and for my own edification it would be nice to know  
> how to do that.

At a minimum, you can't disable TLS.  If you disable TLS support in  
dovecot, the server is no longer IMAP 4rev1 compliant (see RFC 3501  
[6.1.1] - STARTTLS MUST be supported by server).

michael




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