[Dovecot] Imap proxy with tls?

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Mon Jan 14 04:41:21 EET 2008


On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Someone Something wrote:

>   I have a server with dovecot installed with imap and tls working (call
> that the remote server).  Now I want to have a few computers at the same
> place to access the same account on the remote server.  I have another
> server (call this the local server) at the local site to do this with but am
> not sure how to do it.  The proxy setup
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy looks about right
> but that does not seem to support tls?  I need tls going from the local
> server to the remote server.  I want all emails on the remote server to be
> the same as on the local server.  This way all clients at the local site
> have very fast access to email and can still get to the email when not at
> the local site.

This is a little different from what you're doing, but let me tell you how 
I do the above: I run offlineimap on the "local server", and it syncs the 
changes to and from the "remote server".

-- Asheesh.

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