[Dovecot] TLS / SSL mixed w/ plaintext auth and virtual hosting

[Nathan M]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Michael Orlitzky<michael at orlitzky.com> wrote:
> Nathan M wrote:
>>
>> Traditionally this server has only accepted plaintext authentications;
>> however, we want to change that and enable TLS/SSL.  The challenge is
>> the server has hundreds of IP addresses it binds to to listen on ports
>> 110/143.
>
> It may be 3am, but I'm pretty sure that this is the part of your setup that
> doesn't make sense. Why does your POP/IMAP server need to be accessed via so
> many addresses?
>

Because everybody wants to check email at mail.$theirdomain.com.
Also, some users "need" to check email with username only, so the
local_ip variable is used within the dovecot-sql query to lookup some
virtual users by  username only + match the local_ip to a table with
domain+ip lookup.

- N