[Dovecot] Dovecot imap proxy to nginx, incompatible

[Timo Sirainen]

On 24.12.2011, at 1.44, David Jonas wrote:

> It appears that using dovecot to proxy to nginx imap proxy doesn't work.
> From tcpdump and browsing the source it appears dovecot sends,
> 
> C CAPABILITY\r\nL LOGIN <user> <pass>\r\n
> 
> and nginx only responds to the CAPABILITY command. Is this a problem
> with dovecot sending the two commands without waiting for the first to
> complete or is it nginx's trouble with not handling it correctly?

nginx bug. Dovecot is just being as efficient as it can be.