Configuring the firewall for Leopard

Christopher Hunt huntc at internode.on.net
Fri Oct 26 07:27:36 PDT 2007


Hi there,

I've just installed Leopard and I'm having a little difficulty with  
the firewall. :-P

I have the uw imapd configured via launchd to listen on port 993. If I  
turn the firewall off then all is well and mail can connect. If I turn  
it on then I'm unable to get the firewall to recognise that traffic  
for imapd is acceptable.

What I've tried is to add my imapd executable (/usr/local/bin/imapd)  
as an app in the "Set access for specific services and applications"  
pane but all I get is:

Firewall[51]: Deny imapd connecting from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxxx uid = 0  
proto=6

(the xxx being the source ip/port)

Any idea on how to configure the firewall to allow my imapd traffic?

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,
-C


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