[Dovecot] IMAP proxy with master user and CRAM-MD5 auth mechanism

2014-03-26 Thread ML mail
Hello, I would like to know if it possible to have a dovecot IMAP proxy frontend where CRAM-MD5 can be used as auth mechanism (assuming I would be using a master user/password on the dovecot IMAP backend/mailbox)? I have read a few times the following

Re: [Dovecot] IMAP proxy with master user and CRAM-MD5 auth mechanism

2014-03-26 Thread ML mail
Hi Trent, Thanks for your exhaustive explanation now it is clear. What was unclear to me was the fact that the IMAP proxy server has to take care of the authentication in this case of using a master user and therefore it needs access to the passwords (in my case stored in the mailbox table in