[Dovecot] dovecot and tcpwrappers

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Aug 23 21:52:05 EEST 2011


On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 15:39 +0200, Kees Lemmens wrote:

> I think I sorted it out : I also had to add a service section to 
> dovecot.conf and I had to change the old "imap-login" settings in 
> /etc./hosts.allow to be simply "imap" now.
..
> Timo : maybe this could be documented a little better ? It took me quite a 
> while now to figure it all out.

Yeah, I've just been too busy.. I added it now to
http://wiki2.dovecot.org/LoginProcess

> About the "not running from inetd" problem : would it be enough to copy the 
> modules to the chrooted directory to avoid this connect(imap-login) problem 
> ? 

I've removed all the code necessary for running from inetd. It was
horribly ugly code and I never liked it. There's not going to be any
easy way to add it back.





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