Restrict mail user to login from specified IP addresses or networks

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Since iRedMail-0.9.1, it's able to restrict mail users to login from specified IP addresses or networks.

Allowed IP/networks must be separated by comma. If the user tries to log in elsewhere, the authentication will fail the same way as if a wrong password was given.

Below sample usage shows how to restrict mail user user@domaim.com to login from only IP address 172.16.244.1 or network 192.168.1.0/24.

Warning

If webmail is running on same server, and you want to allow user to login from webmail, please allow IP 127.0.0.1 too.

Manage with iRedAdmin-Pro

With iRedAdmin-Pro, please go to user profile page, click tab Advanced, you will find setting Restrict to login from specified addresses like below:

Manage with SQL command line for SQL backends

sql> USE vmail;
sql> UPDATE mailbox SET allow_nets='172.16.244.1,192.168.1.0/24' WHERE username='user@domain.com';

To remove this restriction (allow to login from anywhere), just set value of SQL column mailbox.allow_nets to NULL. WARNING: It must be NULL, not empty string.

Manage with LDAP command line for LDAP backends

To allow user user@domain.com to login from IP 172.16.244.1 and network 192.168.1.0/24, please add new attribute allowNets to this user:

allowNets: 192.168.1.10,192.168.1.0/24

To remove this restriction, just remove attribute allowNets for this user.

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