Question Dovecot without pop

[Papalapappi]

Hey folks, first post here so let’s try

I run a VPS as a Mailserver for me and m family with almost everything set up fine

But I don’t need Pop at all. I found the Dovecot configuration files but every file states something like this:

#DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE BECAUSE IT WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY,
#SO ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST THE NEXT TIME THE FILE IS GENERATED

So how to disable pop? (POP3 and POP3s)

I just know how to edit the Dovecot.conf to disable pop. But if these changes gets revoked it’s kinda senseless

 

[MarkM]

You could just firewall the ports.

 

[Papalapappi]

You could just firewall the ports.

Yes I do that right now. A cleaner solution isn’t possible?
Is Dovecot completely under the control of Plesk with almost no options and no chance to configure it as it is originally build?

 

[IgorG]

Try to use following method:

# echo "protocols = imap" > /etc/dovecot/conf.d/00-pop3-disable.conf
# systemctl restart dovecot