Dovecot Proxy and Director

[Aki Tuomi]

> On October 29, 2016 at 5:17 PM Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> just a simple question: by using a directory and a proxy, I would be
> able to totally hide the pop3/imap server ip addresses from outside?
> I'm asking this because I would like to hide the real server IP for
> security reasosn (DDoS and so on).
> 
> The proxy would be placed on servers with high bandwidth while the
> pop3/imap dovecot servers are placed in a small datacenter that would
> go down easily in case of attack


You could use private ip addresses backends so you don't even need to expose them to internet at all.

Aki