[Dovecot] proxy and master user

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 17:43 +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Hi
> 
> For some application we need a master user on our IMAP servers. We use
> dovecot 1.1.7 in proxy mode, with proxy_maybe (some mailboxes are on the
> proxy itself, others are on remote servers, also running dovecot).
> 
> But the proxy removes the '*master' suffix from the username when using
> the master user to log in on the proxy. So the base name of the user
> with the master password are submitted to the real server, which of
> course fails.
> 
> Is there a way to tell the proxy to forward the master user to the real
> server, without forcing it in destuser, since we also need to have
> regular (non master) logins?

I implemented it now for v1.2:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/50f49805b13b

v1.1 should be in bugfixes-only mode and that's a pretty big change, so
probably won't go there..

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