dovecot - May 2006 - imap proxy and passwd-like passdb/userdb

Hi,

I'm testing/using dovecot as imap proxy, passdb/userdb as 
passwd-like-file. It seems to function as expected (1). This setup is 
described in the wiki in AuthSpecials. But I also noticed in the 
documentation (ImapProxy / FeatLoginProxy pages) that the proxy feature 
only works with a sql passdb. Maybe I did something strange, but 
passwd-like-passdb does work.....

So I have some questions: Is the documentation wrong? Is the 
documentation right? ;-) Are there reasons not to use dovecot this way 
(other than scalability / maintainability)? Are there bugs I've not yet 
seen? (am I the only one using dovecot this way?)

thanks-in-advance,
HenkJan

1) i'm proxying to a courier backend, had to modify dovecots 
capability_string, because the emailclient gets the capabilities from 
dovecot, while it uses the proxied server (=courier). Had some strange 
errors with append, as courier doesn't support Literal+, modifying 
dovecot so that it stopped advertising Literal+ solved the problem....




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On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 11:45 +0200, HenkJan Wolthuis
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm testing/using dovecot as imap proxy, passdb/userdb as
> passwd-like-file. It seems to function as expected (1). This setup is
> described in the wiki in AuthSpecials. But I also noticed in the
> documentation (ImapProxy / FeatLoginProxy pages) that the proxy
> feature only works with a sql passdb. Maybe I did something strange,
> but passwd-like-passdb does work.....
> 
> So I have some questions: Is the documentation wrong? Is the
> documentation right? ;-) Are there reasons not to use dovecot this way
> (other than scalability / maintainability)? Are there bugs I've not
> yet seen? (am I the only one using dovecot this way?)
Well, earlier it wasn't possible to return the host, proxy option etc.
with anything else than SQL userdb. But nowadays it's possible with
passwd-file also..

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