dovecot - Oct 2007 - FW: IMAP proxy with dovecot and hostname

Good morning dovecot users

 

I read  in  http://wiki.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy
that dovecot need  ip address in host field and then 

"This field is required. Note that currently it's required to use an IP
address since no DNS resolving is done.".

 

I use a qmail cluster  and Courier IMAP. In this system used the ldap
field mailhost  for proxy functionality with dns name as value. 

Is there a plan to add the DNS resolving to dovecot in host field; Is
there any patch;

 

Thanks

Antonis

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:11:03AM +0300, Limperis Antonis
wrote:
> I use a qmail cluster  and Courier IMAP. In this system used the ldap
> field mailhost  for proxy functionality with dns name as value. 
> 
> Is there a plan to add the DNS resolving to dovecot in host field; Is
> there any patch;
 
I struggled with Dovecot's proxying for a few days, and even though we
eventually got it to work, the non-support of DNS names in that field
really made this feature unusable for me. 

I have a few suggestions (other than the support for DNS names):

* The server's config should have a list of all values for proxy
  which refer to its own host: like the PROXY_HOSTNAME in Courier. 

* There should be a way to turn on proxying globally without us having
  to set it for each and every user.

Even though Dovecot does work as a proxy, the presence of the above two
attributes are absolutely essential in real world use.

Please do correct me if some of these things are already possible.

-Abhijit