Configuring the firewall for Leopard

[Derek Chesterfield]

Did you try restarting the daemon after you added imapd to the firewall?
The firewall allows/denies when the process opens the listening, not  
for each inbound request.

On 28 Oct 2007, at 00:02, Christopher Hunt wrote:

> Allow me to rephrase my question. :-)
>
> I'm having difficulty configuring the Leopard firewall for a  
> service installed via launchd. My service sits on port 993. How do  
> I configure the Leopard firewall to allow incoming traffic on port  
> 993?
>
> From what I can see, I can only declare applications via the "Set  
> access for specific services and applications" pane. If I chose the  
> application logically associated with that socket (/usr/local/bin/ 
> imapd) then I am not able to connect. However if I disable the  
> firewall (allow all incoming traffic) then my imap clients connect  
> to port 993 successfully.
>
> Any pointers further to this and my previous posts?
>
> Cheers,
> -C
>
> P.S. port 993 is used to accept imap traffic over ssl - imaps;  
> sorry for not being more specific. From /etc/services:
> imaps           993/udp     # imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL
> imaps           993/tcp     # imap4 protocol over TLS/SSL
>
> On 28/10/2007, at 5:40 AM, Dan Shoop wrote:
>
>> Oh Leopard. Missed that.
>>
>> In that case remove "ipfw" and replace with the word "this".
>>
>> And re-read what I said in the last post. Because the answer here  
>> is still going to come down to that if you just enabled the imap  
>> port, however did that with whatever firewall, you've not enabled  
>> port 993 since imap doesn't run on that port.
>>
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