disable pop3 ports?

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I meant in the firewall itself. 

Usually when you set up a server none of thr ports are open in the firewall. At some point you opened 110 and 995.





	  Original Message  	


From: dan at newideatest.site
Sent: May 4, 2021 2:41 AM
To: dovecot at dovecot.org; ml+dovecot at valo.at
Subject: Re: disable pop3 ports?



On 5/4/2021 3:18 AM, Christian Kivalo wrote:
>
>
> On 2021-05-04 10:29, Dan Egli wrote:
>> For gentoo, there is only one package. And here's your output:
>>
>> # 2.3.13 (89f716dc2): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
>> # Pigeonhole version 0.5.13 (cdd19fe3)
>> # OS: Linux 5.11.16-gentoo-x86_64 x86_64 Gentoo Base System release
>> 2.7 xfs
>> # Hostname: jupiter.newideatest.site
>
>>
>>
>> and yet if I do doveconf protocols:
>> # doveconf protocols
>> protocols = imap pop3 lmtp
> In dovecot.conf i have a line that enables the protocols.
>
> # Enable installed protocols
> !include_try /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol
>
> This is on debian where every protocol is a separate package to install.
> This could also just be:
> protocols = imap lmtp pop3
>
> Remove pop3 from there and you should be good. You can even have the
> config in place.
>
> The other option to disable the pop3 listeners is to set the port = 0
>
> From 10-master.conf (when using split config files)
> service pop3-login {
>  inet_listener pop3 {
>    port = 0
>  }
>  inet_listener pop3s {
>    port = 0
>    ssl = yes
>  }
> }
>
> This disables pop3 listeners even when the pop3 protocol is enabled.
>
I would have thought that commenting them out would do that too. But I
can uncomment them and add a port = 0, see if that helps.


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Dan Egli
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