[Dovecot] proxy host specified as fqdn in userdb

Steven F Siirila sfs at tc.umn.edu
Wed Mar 28 03:59:09 EEST 2007


On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:58:34AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:27 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote:
> > 
> > I don't know about that, but what I'm asking is..  how many people
> > are allowing IMAP/POP3 connections (with authentication via user/pw)
> > over non-secure (non-SSL/TLS) connections?  I wouldn't think there
> > would be many nowadays, and that there would be less as time passes.
> > If that assumption is true, then I would think proxying would be very
> > common (at least within a host where the imap-login and imap processes
> > are paired together doing SSL/TLS).
> 
> Yes, but that was the point. When proxying within a host you don't need
> DNS resolving.

My misunderstanding...
That's what I get for skimming my e-mail!  Sorry for the added noise.  :)

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