[Dovecot] Multiple instances and/or separate certificates per email address
Hi,
We have a mail server with multiple instances of Postfix each listening on a different IP address to create a set of virtual mail servers. There are various reasons why separate instances of Postfix seems to work best to achieve this goal, but I wont divert into that discussion here.
I would like so match this with Dovecot. The listening side isn't a problem as Dovecot can listen on multiple explicit IP addresses. However, we would prefer a separate SSL certificate for each virtual mail server i.e. for each IP address. Would it be better to have multiple instances of Dovecot on the server (not sure what the issues might be with this) or would it be better/easier to be able to specify separate SSL certificates for each listen address, since there isn't any other reason I can see to have multiple instances.
Any thought? Is there a way to do this now or would this be a new feature request?
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On Sex, 2009-04-17 at 22:03 +1000, Simon L Jackson wrote:
Hi,
We have a mail server with multiple instances of Postfix each listening on a different IP address to create a set of virtual mail servers. There are various reasons why separate instances of Postfix seems to work best to achieve this goal, but I wont divert into that discussion here.
I would like so match this with Dovecot. The listening side isn't a problem as Dovecot can listen on multiple explicit IP addresses. However, we would prefer a separate SSL certificate for each virtual mail server i.e. for each IP address. Would it be better to have multiple instances of Dovecot on the server (not sure what the issues might be with this) or would it be better/easier to be able to specify separate SSL certificates for each listen address, since there isn't any other reason I can see to have multiple instances.
Any thought? Is there a way to do this now or would this be a new feature request?
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