[Dovecot] Filtering IP address connections ?

[Frank Bonnet]

  OK folks

I'll let the firewall do the job !

Thanks

  On 10/18/2010 03:40 PM, Jerry wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:49:50 +0200
> fakessh at fakessh.eu articulated:
>
>> Le 18.10.2010 14:32, Leonardo Rodrigues a écrit :
>>>      why not make things easier and use your OS packet filter for
>>> that ? iptables for linux, for example
>>>
>>> Em 18/10/2010 10:22, Frank Bonnet escreveu:
>>>>   Hello
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to refuse connections from some IP address
>>>> in Dovecot configuration ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> with sieve is also possible: I give an example
>>
>> require
>> ["fileinto","regex","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","reject","relational"];
>>
>> if anyof (
>> header :contains "Received"
>>               [ "[4.63.*.*",
>>                ]
>> {
>> reject text:
>> I am not taking mail from you, and I don't
>> want your birdseed, either!
>> it is UBE UCE no talking to me please!
>> see you letter ?
>> .
>>        ;
>> }
>   Perhaps I am confused, but why are you doing this at the LDA level?
>   You cannot legitimately bounce mail from there without becoming a
>   source of backscatter. Why not filter these messages at the MTA level.
>   Postfix, as one example, has ways of accomplishing just this sort of
>   behavior.
>