Re: courier-imap

From: Christian Damm (christian.damm_at_diewebmaster.at)
Date: 04/21/05

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    Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:35:13 +0200
To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>

    Odhiambo Washington schrieb:
    > * Christian Damm <christian.damm@diewebmaster.at> [20050421 11:51]: wrote:
    >
    >>
    >>Odhiambo Washington schrieb:
    >>
    >>>* Christian Damm <christian.damm@diewebmaster.at> [20050421 00:08]: wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>Odhiambo Washington schrieb:
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>>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.
    >>>>
    >>>>1.) you can use the courier-suites own tcp server (quite similar to the
    >>>>DJB tcp server), 'couriertcpd' - look into the manpage, it is able to do
    >>>>ip restrictions and much more.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>This assumes that I use courier as the MTA, yes?
    >>>
    >>>In my case I only use the IMAP daemon. I use other MTA.
    >>>
    >>
    >>no, if you look at your PS output you`ll see 'couriertcpd' running -
    >>regardless which part of the courier suite you are using ('couriertcpd'
    >>is the courier suites generic tcp server)
    >
    >
    >
    > You are damn right!! Now I just need to give it ACLs, you mean??
    > I need to find out HOW it is invoked and how I can pass it the arguments
    > that will lead to the access control.

    manpage

    >
    >
    >
    >
    >>>>2.) dont know if it is possible to compile courier imap aginst libwrap
    >>>>and use the tcp wrapper (hosts.allow).
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>Perhaps this one might be better. I will look into this.
    >>>
    >>
    >>method 1 is the best in any case imho.
    >
    >
    > Have you used it before, by any chance? I could move quickly with some
    > practical experience.
    >

    sorry, no i have not used 'couriertcpd'`s config options in the past
    (even in big complex setups there is mostly no need to tweak it).

    >
    >
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    > Odhiambo Washington
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