On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:28:54PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 27.3.2007, at 3.35, Steven F Siirila wrote:
The problem with this is that it would require adding asynchronous
DNS library to Dovecot, or alternatively hoping that your DNS server is never down (and hanging when it is). I don't really want to implement the latter, and adding async DNS library just for proxying which
is used by very few people seems a bit bloaty.If we require SSL/TLS connections, are we not always "proxying"
connections? if that is true, and most folks require SSL/TLS (is that not the
case??), then wouldn't most folks then be used by lots of people?
Of course I meant "then wouldn't most folks be proxying?"
And how many people are proxying SSL/TLS connections to different
computers?
I don't know about that, but what I'm asking is.. how many people are allowing IMAP/POP3 connections (with authentication via user/pw) over non-secure (non-SSL/TLS) connections? I wouldn't think there would be many nowadays, and that there would be less as time passes. If that assumption is true, then I would think proxying would be very common (at least within a host where the imap-login and imap processes are paired together doing SSL/TLS).
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