On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:03:54AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 00:56 +0300, Apostolos Papayanakis wrote:
Abstract from http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy
host=s: The destination server's *IP address*. This field is required. Note that currently it's required to use an IP address since no DNS resolving is done.
Hello Timo, Here goes one more item for the v2.0 wishlist: Will it become possible to do dovecot imap proxying based on a "host" userdb attribute that is an FQDN (instead of a numeric IP as it is now)?
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?
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