disable pop3 ports?

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at open-xchange.com
Tue May 4 13:14:17 EEST 2021


> On 04/05/2021 12:40 Dan Egli <dan at newideatest.site> wrote:
> 
>  
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan Egli
>  From my Test Server

Hi!

To correctly enable/disable protocols, ensure they are (not) listed on 
protocols.

doveconf protocols

tells you this.

Usually on debian based systems the easiest way is to uninstall `dovecot-pop3d` package.

Aki


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