On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 15:09 +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > > Maybe I could include a script that would check the reverse DNS record > > > of a connected IP and then I could filter????? > > > > Wonder if tcpwrappers would work? You could use that with Dovecot v2.0. > > I have read a few things about this, it looks like its not so good to do it > this way, > besides having proper written daemons running from (x)inted is a system > overhead.
You don't need to run Dovecot from inetd to use tcpwrappers in v2.0. You actually can't even do that. There are separate tcpwrap processes that perform the access lookups.