[Dovecot] Multiple instances and/or separate certificates per email address

Jose Celestino japc at co.sapo.pt
Fri Apr 17 15:48:07 EEST 2009


On Sex, 2009-04-17 at 22:03 +1000, Simon L Jackson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a mail server with multiple instances of Postfix each listening 
> on a different IP address to create a set of virtual mail servers. There 
> are various reasons why separate instances of Postfix seems to work best 
> to achieve this goal, but I wont divert into that discussion here.
> 
> I would like so match this with Dovecot. The listening side isn't a 
> problem as Dovecot can listen on multiple explicit IP addresses. 
> However, we would prefer a separate SSL certificate for each virtual 
> mail server i.e. for each IP address. Would it be better to have 
> multiple instances of Dovecot on the server (not sure what the issues 
> might be with this) or would it be better/easier to be able to specify 
> separate SSL certificates for each listen address, since there isn't any 
> other reason I can see to have multiple instances.
> 
> Any thought? Is there a way to do this now or would this be a new 
> feature request?
> 

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