[Dovecot] IP Based Access

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jun 28 14:17:14 EEST 2005


On 28.6.2005, at 06:54, kasharif at citech-bd.com wrote:

> I tried with hosts.allow it doesn't work. if dovecot doesn't have any 
> ACL
> system then i think ip filtering is the only solution isn't it?

What ACL system do you mean?

Firewalling is one solution anyway. Another would be to try to run 
Dovecot through inetd which would make hosts.allow work (see wiki). And 
final possibility would be to use PAM module which restricts the IP 
addresses where to allow logins.
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