adamw Posted April 3, 2005 Report Share Posted April 3, 2005 Hey guys, now I need some help :). I've just set up an IMAP server on my machine so I can access the same email anywhere, I've got squirrelmail working for a webmail frontend, etc. It's all working fine. However, I've noticed one rather annoying security flaw. I can't control access to courier-imap at all. It appears to happily ignore /etc/hosts.deny ; man couriertcpd seems to confirm this. It suggests that couriertcpd has its own *special, shiny* access control file, which I should create with makesmtpaccess . Which we don't package, I think because we only package a bit of the whole courier suite. There's no obvious provision I can see to run courier through xinetd, so I'm basically stuck allowing the whole world access to my IMAP server if I want to ever be able to access it outside my firewall. This, obviously, isn't good. Anyone have any ideas? *Please* don't tell me to install sendmail or postfix or exim, they give me migraines. thanks guys :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted April 4, 2005 Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 Have you tried looking for a webmin module that will let you do this? Disclaimer: I've never used webmin so this may be a smelly maroon fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2005 Interesting idea, I'll see what I can find - unless there's a webmin module that builds the courier access control file I don't see how it could do it, though. Thanks for the suggestion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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