[Dovecot] IMAPs and POP3s poxying

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 1 12:45:50 EEST 2007


On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 09:10 -0400, Jason Russler wrote:
> How 
> would I configure Dovecot to proxy another single system without doing 
> the SQL look-up?

Dovecot isn't really designed for that kind of a proxying, so you can't
avoid it.

> Is there a port-forwarding solution that would work 
> better (for POP3s and IMAPS)?  These are RedHat 5 hosts so Netfilter is 
> fair game if the protocols allow.  Thanks,

Well, it sounds like you need generic TCP proxying which doesn't need to
know about the used protocol at all.

Googleing tcp proxy found this as the first hit:
http://nest.cs.uiowa.edu/22C178f00/article/12.html

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