[cobalt-users] RaQ4: Disabling POP3 and IMAP Services

["Schachter, Abe" <ans@xxxxxxxx>]

I am managing a RaQ4 that services a number of majordomo-based mailing lists
with several thousand internal subscribers.  The server is very lightly
utilized as it is used strictly for sending outgoing announcements.  I've
been instructed by management to disable the POP3 and IMAP services for
security reasons.  Here is what I have found:

- SMTP, POP3 and IMAP are treated as one and they are either all
  enabled or all disabled.
- Manually disabling POP3 and IMAP services in inetd.conf does not
  prevent the changes from being overwritten by the web interface.
- Commenting out swatch_set_service_on and swatch_set_service_off
  for POP3 and IMAP in 
  /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/services/services.cgi allows me to
  prevent changing these parameters in inetd.conf, but:

Either way, Active Monitor flashes a Severe Problem with the email service
because the POP3 and IMAP services are not responding.  Can anybody provide
some guidance as to how to get Active Monitor to ignore POP3 and IMAP?

Thanks,
Abe Schachter

EDS Federal
I-Assure Contract
E-Mail:	ans@xxxxxxxx
Phone:	+1-703-607-6821

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