[Dovecot] imap proxy and passwd-like passdb/userdb

[HenkJan Wolthuis]

Hi,

I'm testing/using dovecot as imap proxy, passdb/userdb as 
passwd-like-file. It seems to function as expected (1). This setup is 
described in the wiki in AuthSpecials. But I also noticed in the 
documentation (ImapProxy / FeatLoginProxy pages) that the proxy feature 
only works with a sql passdb. Maybe I did something strange, but 
passwd-like-passdb does work.....

So I have some questions: Is the documentation wrong? Is the 
documentation right? ;-) Are there reasons not to use dovecot this way 
(other than scalability / maintainability)? Are there bugs I've not yet 
seen? (am I the only one using dovecot this way?)

thanks-in-advance,
HenkJan

1) i'm proxying to a courier backend, had to modify dovecots 
capability_string, because the emailclient gets the capabilities from 
dovecot, while it uses the proxied server (=courier). Had some strange 
errors with append, as courier doesn't support Literal+, modifying 
dovecot so that it stopped advertising Literal+ solved the problem....




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