The end of Dovecot Director?

[justina colmena ~biz]

Nginx is an excellent suggestion for the purpose. However I do not like 
German client certificates. That is far too much "proof" of identification 
18/21++ on a public network with nowhere to hide and those of us who are 
not German citizens and do not have the advantage of a friendly local 
police jurisdiction with massive international clout and an assumed 
legitimacy for all the online surveillance, policing, and copping with 
unfounded sex charges etc. being pressed online.

Not that I care much for alcohol, but the analogy that comes to mind with 
such "proof" of identity presented across the internet as a public 
certificate is that of "public drunkenness," versus, say, "drinking 
privately in one's quarters," i.e., making an encrypted connection, and 
only then within the encrypted channel establishing identity and 
authorization with a username and password or other means of 
authentication.

On Friday, October 21, 2022 3:29:36 AM AKDT, spi wrote:
> Am 21.10.22 um 13:14 schrieb Amol Kulkarni:
>> Nginx has an mail proxy for pop, imap, smtp.
>> Can it be used instead of director ?
>> 
>> 
> Nginx can authenticate imap/smtp (and probably pop3) users. If you that,
> you can define a backend server the session is routed to. Currently I
> use that approach to authenticate users by client certificates and route
> them to the appriopriate backend (well, I only have one ;-).
>
> --
> Cheers
> spi
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