[Dovecot] MS Exchange IMAP Proxy

[Jerry]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:36:46 -0500
Terry Carmen articulated:

> I need to make the IMAP interface of an Exchange 2000 server
> available on the net, however I would like to give it a little
> protection, and believe Dovecot's IMAP proxy might be appropriate.
> 
> Does anybody have a *really simple* config that would allow IMAP  
> pass-through to a single Exchange server?
> 
> The examples I've seen all assume some sort of load balancing, which  
> isn't an issue here, so I'd like to eliminate the need for an  
> unnecessary database server.
> 
> Does Dovecot do any cleanup of the IMAP commands that would be
> useful in protecting Exchange (from this,  
> http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2007-0221/ for example), or am I  
> barking up the wrong tree?
> 
> If Dovecot isn't helpful for this, can anybody point me to a better
> resource?

An Exchange 2000 server is ancient. I wouldn't waste time with it
unless there was no possible way to get an updated version; ie, Exchange
server 2010.

-- 
Jerry ✌
Dovecot.user at seibercom.net

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