courier-imap

[Odhiambo Washington]

* Brian Reichert <reichert at numachi.com> [20050421 10:03]: wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:52:07PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > Hello Sysadmins,
> > 
> > Does anyone have any clues as to how I can easily limit access to my
> > imapd daemon to just a few hosts?
> > I am running courier-imap but looking at /etc/inetd.conf, I don't
> > see how I could put it in there and hence use hosts.allow to control
> > access. Google has not helped much, but again I may be searching using
> > wrong keyword.
> 
> I think courier-imap uses the qmail-based tcpserver invocations,
> does it not?  If so, you could use a tcprules database to impose
> those sort of constraints.

I have never used qmail in my life, so I cannot answer that. However
the easiest method I have found out is using a packet filter.
If you get one of those HOWTOs on the net on how I can achieve the
goal, please let me know.

 

        Best regards,
        Odhiambo Washington
	Systems Admin,
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