dovecot - Apr 2009 - Multiple instances and/or separate certificates per email address

Hi,

We have a mail server with multiple instances of Postfix each listening 
on a different IP address to create a set of virtual mail servers. There 
are various reasons why separate instances of Postfix seems to work best 
to achieve this goal, but I wont divert into that discussion here.

I would like so match this with Dovecot. The listening side isn't a 
problem as Dovecot can listen on multiple explicit IP addresses. 
However, we would prefer a separate SSL certificate for each virtual 
mail server i.e. for each IP address. Would it be better to have 
multiple instances of Dovecot on the server (not sure what the issues 
might be with this) or would it be better/easier to be able to specify 
separate SSL certificates for each listen address, since there isn't any 
other reason I can see to have multiple instances.

Any thought? Is there a way to do this now or would this be a new 
feature request?

Cheers

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On Sex, 2009-04-17 at 22:03 +1000, Simon L Jackson
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a mail server with multiple instances of Postfix each listening 
> on a different IP address to create a set of virtual mail servers. There 
> are various reasons why separate instances of Postfix seems to work best 
> to achieve this goal, but I wont divert into that discussion here.
> 
> I would like so match this with Dovecot. The listening side isn't a 
> problem as Dovecot can listen on multiple explicit IP addresses. 
> However, we would prefer a separate SSL certificate for each virtual 
> mail server i.e. for each IP address. Would it be better to have 
> multiple instances of Dovecot on the server (not sure what the issues 
> might be with this) or would it be better/easier to be able to specify 
> separate SSL certificates for each listen address, since there isn't
any
> other reason I can see to have multiple instances.
> 
> Any thought? Is there a way to do this now or would this be a new 
> feature request?
> 
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