On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Henry Baragar wrote:
>Running two instances is a nice easy solution that I use today.  Why 
>complicate the code---which has the potential to introduce security 
>holes---by adding this feature?

I agree. The operating system gives us the privilege of binding to a
specific interface, so one could argue that Binc IMAP already "supports
this feature". :-) It's just a matter of setting up the tcp wrapper.

In this family we also have the infamous "limit number of connection from
same IP", "allow dumping of protocol data to separate file" (we all have
to admit that Binc already "supports" this feature)...

Andy

PS: I must say it feels good to see other servers implement IPv6 support,
load balancing, multithreading, mysql and ldap authentication support and
features like this last one (of which there are hundreds of variations). I
also feel good when these features are mentioned over and over again in
the servers' change logs.

--
Andreas Aardal Hanssen   | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg
Author of Binc IMAP      |  "It is better not to do something
http://www.bincimap.org/ |        than to do it poorly."


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