dovecot - Dec 2008 - proxy and master user

Hi

For some application we need a master user on our IMAP servers. We use
dovecot 1.1.7 in proxy mode, with proxy_maybe (some mailboxes are on the
proxy itself, others are on remote servers, also running dovecot).

But the proxy removes the '*master' suffix from the username when using
the master user to log in on the proxy. So the base name of the user
with the master password are submitted to the real server, which of
course fails.

Is there a way to tell the proxy to forward the master user to the real
server, without forcing it in destuser, since we also need to have
regular (non master) logins?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Matthieu Herrb
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On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 17:43 +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Hi
> 
> For some application we need a master user on our IMAP servers. We use
> dovecot 1.1.7 in proxy mode, with proxy_maybe (some mailboxes are on the
> proxy itself, others are on remote servers, also running dovecot).
> 
> But the proxy removes the '*master' suffix from the username when
using
> the master user to log in on the proxy. So the base name of the user
> with the master password are submitted to the real server, which of
> course fails.
> 
> Is there a way to tell the proxy to forward the master user to the real
> server, without forcing it in destuser, since we also need to have
> regular (non master) logins?
I implemented it now for v1.2:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.2/rev/50f49805b13b

v1.1 should be in bugfixes-only mode and that's a pretty big change, so
probably won't go there..

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