[Dovecot] Ignored proxy_maybe var and no local login when "host = Proxy FQDN"

[Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 17:56 -0430, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote:
>
> > The dovecot-ldap.conf of "proxy server A" is working when the "host"
> > attribute is the FQDN of other server:
> >
> > pass_attrs = uid=user,userPassword={SSHA}password,\
> >     =proxy_maybe=,maildrop=host,=port=143,=destuser=%u,=starttls=any-cert
> > pass_filter = (&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%u))
> ..
> > The modifications appears here and reveals problems with the call to
> > net_addr2ip(host, &ip) in auth_request_proxy_is_self:
>
> Yeah. The main problem is that this loop detection code is in auth
> process, which won't be doing any DNS lookups. I already once tried
> moving it to login process code where it belongs to, but I failed back
> then. Hmm. Maybe because request->original_username isn't available to
> login processes. But I guess it could be set back.
>
>
Ok...

I will use the IP address in the the maildrop (host) field of my user's LDAP
entries.


> Anyway, I think it's a bit too dangerous to go change this logic too
> much for v2.0. For v2.1 I guess this could be fixed (and you could
> easily backport that patch then).
>
>
Well, although there is no solution right now for the problem, your reply
was really fast and helpful.

Thank you,

Best regards.-

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