On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:03:54AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 00:56 +0300, Apostolos Papayanakis wrote: > > Abstract from http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy > > > > > > > > host=s: The destination server's *IP address*. This field is required. > > > Note that currently it's required to use an IP address since no DNS > > > resolving is done. > > > > > Hello Timo, > > Here goes one more item for the v2.0 wishlist: > > Will it become possible to do dovecot imap proxying based on a "host" > > userdb attribute that is an FQDN (instead of a numeric IP as it is now)? > > The problem with this is that it would require adding asynchronous DNS > library to Dovecot, or alternatively hoping that your DNS server is > never down (and hanging when it is). I don't really want to implement > the latter, and adding async DNS library just for proxying which is used > by very few people seems a bit bloaty.
If we require SSL/TLS connections, are we not always "proxying" connections? if that is true, and most folks require SSL/TLS (is that not the case??), then wouldn't most folks then be used by lots of people? -- Steven F. Siirila Office: Lind Hall, Room 130B Internet Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office of Information Technology Voice: (612) 626-0244 University of Minnesota Fax: (612) 626-7593
