[Dovecot] proxy host specified as fqdn in userdb

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Mar 28 01:58:34 EEST 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:27 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote:
> 
> I don't know about that, but what I'm asking is..  how many people
> are allowing IMAP/POP3 connections (with authentication via user/pw)
> over non-secure (non-SSL/TLS) connections?  I wouldn't think there
> would be many nowadays, and that there would be less as time passes.
> If that assumption is true, then I would think proxying would be very
> common (at least within a host where the imap-login and imap processes
> are paired together doing SSL/TLS).

Yes, but that was the point. When proxying within a host you don't need
DNS resolving.

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