[Dovecot] proxy host specified as fqdn in userdb

[Steven F Siirila]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:03:54AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 00:56 +0300, Apostolos Papayanakis wrote:
> > Abstract from http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy
> > 
> > >
> > > host=s: The destination server's *IP address*. This field is required. 
> > > Note that currently it's required to use an IP address since no DNS 
> > > resolving is done.
> > >
> > Hello Timo,
> >   Here goes one more item for the v2.0 wishlist:
> >   Will it become possible to do dovecot imap proxying based on a "host" 
> > userdb attribute that is an FQDN (instead of a numeric IP as it is now)?
> 
> The problem with this is that it would require adding asynchronous DNS
> library to Dovecot, or alternatively hoping that your DNS server is
> never down (and hanging when it is). I don't really want to implement
> the latter, and adding async DNS library just for proxying which is used
> by very few people seems a bit bloaty.

If we require SSL/TLS connections, are we not always "proxying" connections?
if that is true, and most folks require SSL/TLS (is that not the case??),
then wouldn't most folks then be used by lots of people?

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