On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:11:03AM +0300, Limperis Antonis wrote:

I use a qmail cluster and Courier IMAP. In this system used the ldap field mailhost for proxy functionality with dns name as value.

Is there a plan to add the DNS resolving to dovecot in host field; Is there any patch;

I struggled with Dovecot's proxying for a few days, and even though we eventually got it to work, the non-support of DNS names in that field really made this feature unusable for me.

I have a few suggestions (other than the support for DNS names):

• The server's config should have a list of all values for proxy which refer to its own host: like the PROXY_HOSTNAME in Courier.

• There should be a way to turn on proxying globally without us having to set it for each and every user.

Even though Dovecot does work as a proxy, the presence of the above two attributes are absolutely essential in real world use.

Please do correct me if some of these things are already possible.

-Abhijit