[Dovecot] Dovecot Proxy and environment variables

BaQs serarien at baqs.net
Mon Nov 30 10:50:22 EET 2009


Hi List,

Sorry to bother you again but nobody would have any solution ?

I just want to get real IP on a dovecot behind a dovecot proxy.

I am using dovecot 1.2.4 but can change version if a solution exists.


Thanks a lot in advance,
Pierre

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:25:53 +0100, BaQs <serarien at baqs.net> wrote:
> Dear list, 
> 
> First of all, I am French so excuse my bad english. 
> 
> I am
> currently using dovecot proxy feature, using sql backend. 
> 
> I "proxy" the
> imap/pop requests to another server, let's say server2. 
> 
> On server2, I use
> a script to keep up to date a "pop before smtp auth" database. 
> 
> I used
> mail_executable = /path/to/this/script.sh ... 
> 
> My problem is: the $IP
> environment variable on server2 is the proxy's IP. 
> 
> How could I give a
> variable from proxy to server2, or simply get the real client public IP
?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance for your answers 
> 
> Pierre. 
> 
> PS: let me also
> thank very much dovecot developers and community !


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