[Dovecot] proxy host specified as fqdn in userdb

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Mar 27 23:28:54 EEST 2007


On 27.3.2007, at 3.35, Steven F Siirila wrote:

>> 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?

And how many people are proxying SSL/TLS connections to different  
computers?
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