[Dovecot] Dovecot.conf

Clovis Tristão tclovis at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 03:02:25 EET 2005


Hi Nicholas,

Thanks a lot, I will be study iptables rules.
Clovis

On 12/6/05, Nicholas Young <nich at aurema.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:17:31PM -0200, Clovis Tristão wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am mounting a server of email with the Dovecot as MUA,  i would like
> > to restrict the access to imap and ipop to one determined range of IP.
> > As I configure this in dovecot.conf, I did not understand the
> > functioning of listen = * or [: ]
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Clovis
> > --
> > Clóvis Tristão
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> > Seja Legal, use GNU/Linux
> > ----------------------------------------
>
> The listen directive is for what IP addresses on the dovecot server to
> listen for requests from, not what host addresses to accept. This would
> only really be useful for multihomed machines for interesting firewall
> configuration with redirects.
>
> You will be better off using pf or iptables, depending on OS, to
> restrict access to the server from a set IP address block.
>
> --
> Nich
>


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