On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:58:28PM -0600, Kevin Pendleton wrote: > So now I am really confused, shouldn't the proxy see the options tag and > query the remote server for the authentication? I don't see why it > should need anything more then just the one options=mailhost tag or am I > missing something here?
Because of the way it works, it does a *full* authentication before proxying the request (i.e. it checks the password as well). In principle, you could have a proxy which accepted a username plus any random password, and proxied to the backend without checking the password. It would have to be clever enough to notice that if the far end rejects the login, it goes back into the login loop locally. But this is not how courier works. It's not really a problem though - just put a full copy of your userdb on the proxy box (or point your proxy box at the same LDAP / mysql / postgres database) Regards, Brian. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
