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. Thanks for the immediate answer! I had hoped that it would be ok for the
O/H Timo Sirainen έγραψε: proxy dovecot process to block on DNS, but it seems that this is not the case. I will now happilly go ahead and create a "host" attribute containing the IP of the proxied servers as suggested.
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