[Dovecot] Any simple way to block logins by IP address?
Joseph Tam
jtam.home at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 02:45:55 EEST 2013
Steve Campbel writes:
> Does Dovecot have a facility to block pop3 and imap logins by IP
> address. I usually do this by putting the IPs in my border firewall, but
> it's in transition currently to a new one, and I'd like to end
> connection fairly fast.
You probably want to compile in tcp_wrapper support and handle it
that way
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LoginProcess
You might also hook into a the post-login script if you need some bizarre
logic to determine whether to allow a login or not, but this is later
in the session setup rather than block-on-sight like a firewall.
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PostLoginScripting
Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>
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