[Dovecot] Feature Request for Proxy

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:26 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> Any suggestions on how this could be done more dynamically, or else 
> could I raise a feature request that the auth process somehow realises 
> when it's being forwarded to an IP address that it's actually listening 
> on already already (ie it's a request which loops back to itself), thus 
> simplifying the config files?  I haven't cracked open the code, but it 
> sounds somewhat possible to check the list of IP addresses we are 
> currently listening on and check that the proxy dest isn't among them?

Try the attached patch. It probably causes the login to fail then. If it
works, I'll continue with a dovecot-auth patch that does the same thing
to make it really work automatically.

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