[BlueOnyx:20114] Re: dovecot tcpwrappers

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Herbert,

> How can I configure dovecot to use tcpwrappers?
> I have BlueOnyx on SL 6.8.
> 
> I hope its just a config file thing. But I wanted to ask before I edited
> anything.

May I ask why? :-)

I experimented a bit with that in the past and the results were kind of
discouraging. Dovecot doesn't like tcpwrappers at all and there is too
much stuff that gets into the way.

As is we run it directly as a service. You could try it and could
disable the dovecot service and then provide your own wrappers in
/etc/xinetd.d/

However: Future dovecot updates might enable the dovecot service again,
which will then conflict with your tcpwrapper configuration.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber