[Dovecot] IMAPs and POP3s poxying
Hi All, I have a polotical situation at work that requires that I off-load mail access to a host other than the one our users have configured in their clients. I don't have access to any of the switching or routing to our hosts, and there's only a 1 to 1 relationship between the proxy I want to set up and the actual mail handler. I was looking at the proxying Howto in the Wiki and was presented with an SQL server requirement to do user/ip address look-ups. In my case, it will always be proxying the same host. How would I configure Dovecot to proxy another single system without doing the SQL look-up? Is there a port-forwarding solution that would work better (for POP3s and IMAPS)? These are RedHat 5 hosts so Netfilter is fair game if the protocols allow. Thanks, -Jason
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 09:10 -0400, Jason Russler wrote:
How would I configure Dovecot to proxy another single system without doing the SQL look-up?
Dovecot isn't really designed for that kind of a proxying, so you can't avoid it.
Is there a port-forwarding solution that would work better (for POP3s and IMAPS)? These are RedHat 5 hosts so Netfilter is fair game if the protocols allow. Thanks,
Well, it sounds like you need generic TCP proxying which doesn't need to know about the used protocol at all.
Googleing tcp proxy found this as the first hit: http://nest.cs.uiowa.edu/22C178f00/article/12.html
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