[Dovecot] SSL only for external connections

Terry Carmen terry at cnysupport.com
Fri Sep 30 22:59:29 EEST 2011


> On 09/30/11 20:25, Simon Brereton wrote:
>
>> 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.

You can specify what ports and interfaces the various services listen  
on with the
inet_listener configuration block and the "address" and "port"  
configuration items in the 10-master.conf configuration file.

Terry





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