Adding secure POP3?

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Thu Apr 13 14:27:55 EEST 2017



On 13.04.2017 14:16, @lbutlr wrote:
> On 2017-04-13 (05:11 MDT), "@lbutlr" <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>> 1) How do I add a secure (TLS) POP3 service to dovecot
>> 2) can I restrict access to that to specific users? Domains?
>>
>> OT, but someone probably knows, is secured POP3 going to work with gmail?
> 4) Can I force pop3 connections to remove after downloading? Otherwise I know the inbox will just fill with thousands and thousands of mail.
>
> 5) Since all the mail is delivered via dovecot to ~user/Maildir/ will POP be returning the contents of the IMAP INBOX to the pop user?
>
1) that is added automatically, you can use ssl=required to require SSL
use. and disable_plaintext_auth to disable authentication without SSL.
Clients using pop3 port should use STARTTLS.

4) you can use autoexpunge here, i guess.

5) yes.

Aki


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