[Dovecot] Restricting IP and/or user access (POP3/IMAP)

Geert Hendrickx ghen at telenet.be
Thu Aug 24 19:02:43 EEST 2006


On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:39:42PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> I considered this solution, but it isn't what I have in mind; everyone
> must be able to fetch POP3/IMAP mail, but some users have to be blocked.
> In other words: user JohnDoe can't fetch his mail thru Dovecot, but can
> still logon thru webmail with his username/password. JaneDoe can both
> fetch her mail with POP3/IMAP as well as thru webmail with her
> username/password.

Then for JohnDoe set allow_nets to 127.0.0.1 (or the IP of the server
running the webmail interface), and for JaneDoe don't set a restriction (or
set it to 0.0.0.0, haven't tried it).  

	Geert


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