Dovecot - Limit a particular user pop/imap from specific IP

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Hello all,

For security reason, can we limit a few user(s) login only from a specific IP (or an IP range , e.g. 10.1.2.0/24) via dovecot?

It is a shared hosting server. However for some users, e.g. admin , reseller login a/c, we would like to limit pop/imap services to those accounts so that it minimizes the chance of password attack.

Thank you for your kind attention.
Regards,
 
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Reading the Dovecot wiki about authentication (http://wiki.dovecot.org/UserIds) doesn't suggest anything like that is possible: the IP address is not part of the authentication, only username and password are.
You may want to look for an IMAP proxy capable of doing something like that. I did a small research and didn't find any.
 
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