I admit I don't quite understand dovecot's config yet, but this is driving me batty. I was looking at my server and noticed that dovecot was listening on the pop3 ports (110/TCP). Since I do not use pop3 at all, nor does anyone who has ever or ever will connect to the server, that seems like a needless waste. So I went through the config files and commented out every reference to pop3 in them. But when I restart dovecot, it STILL opens a listener on 110. How do I fix this? The ONLY external ports I want dovecot listening to are imap4 and imap4s. Thanks! -- Dan Egli From my Test Server -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_0x11B7451DF2015959.asc Type: application/pgp-keys Size: 3792 bytes Desc: OpenPGP public key URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20210503/d651fa29/attachment.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenPGP_signature Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 665 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20210503/d651fa29/attachment.sig>
maybe remove pop3 from protocols, remove service pop3-login, service pop3?> > I admit I don't quite understand dovecot's config yet, but this is > driving me batty. I was looking at my server and noticed that dovecot > was listening on the pop3 ports (110/TCP). Since I do not use pop3 at > all, nor does anyone who has ever or ever will connect to the server, > that seems like a needless waste. So I went through the config files and > commented out every reference to pop3 in them. But when I restart > dovecot, it STILL opens a listener on 110. How do I fix this? The ONLY > external ports I want dovecot listening to are imap4 and imap4s. > > Thanks! >
Not sure what distribution you are using, but some distributions provide distincts package for dovecot-pop, so removing it may be enough. This package main purpose it to install a file in /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/ which is then imported in the config by a line like "!include_try /usr/share/dovecot/protocols.d/*.protocol ? Also, make sure "doveconf protocols" does not include pop3 Presence of service pop3-login, service pop3 in config should not be enough to start listening on pop3 ports.> Le 4 mai 2021 ? 06:40, Dan Egli <dan at newideatest.site> a ?crit : > > I admit I don't quite understand dovecot's config yet, but this is driving me batty. I was looking at my server and noticed that dovecot was listening on the pop3 ports (110/TCP). Since I do not use pop3 at all, nor does anyone who has ever or ever will connect to the server, that seems like a needless waste. So I went through the config files and commented out every reference to pop3 in them. But when I restart dovecot, it STILL opens a listener on 110. How do I fix this? The ONLY external ports I want dovecot listening to are imap4 and imap4s. > > Thanks! > > -- > Dan Egli > From my Test Server > > <OpenPGP_0x11B7451DF2015959.asc>