[Dovecot] One dovecot, multiple addresses

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 12:13 -0400, Nick Plante wrote:
> There was a thread in February called "One dovecot, multiple domains" that
> I'd like to follow up on...
> 
> I have a similar need; a hosted system with a couple IP aliases currently
> running dovecot for users at imap.domain1.com on one of those addresses.
> Now I need to also make it accessible via the name imap.domain2.com on a
> different address. Both "hosts" require SSL certs. They'll be using the
> same user auth
> source and have access to the same mailspools (although certain users will
> access theirs through domain1 and others through domain2).
> 
> It sounds like dovecot doesn't support this sort of ip-based virtual
> hosting scheme right now. Is it possible to just configure two separate
> instances of the server, one bound to each virtual interface with their
> separate certs? Or are there issues with this poor man approach
> (contention, etc)?

Currently Dovecot doesn't really support this. For Dovecot 2.0 I'm going
to make it possible to give per-ip settings, but that won't happen for a
while..

For now you can run two dovecots, just make sure the base_dir is
different for them.


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