[Dovecot] SSL only for external connections

Dick Middleton dick at fouter.net
Fri Sep 30 22:47:29 EEST 2011


On 09/30/11 20:25, Simon Brereton wrote:

> But the question remains - if only because it's now there - how does one limit services effectively in Dovecot.  In Courier it was fairly easy and well documented.  There's no reason for me to offer IMAPS or POP3S to localhost (because of the certificate issue) and there's also no reason for me to offer POP3 to localhost either.
>
> For posterity and for my own edification it would be nice to know how to do that.


I don't think you can do that.  However if you don't want to use tls/ssl 
just connect to port 143 plain.

I don't know about horde but Roundcube you use tls://localhost, 
ssl://locahost or just localhost.

i.e the choice is with the client not the server.

Dick



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