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2018 Feb 26
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understanding dovecot director passdb configuration
...er of unknown
users. To prevent this, the director should be configured to authenticate
the user and might make use of a master password to log into the backend
servers."
I understand on static passdb config dovecot assigns a user to a machine in
the list of backends by using md5(username)%number_of_mail_servers. But
other than this calculation it does not incur any other resources. It does
have tcp connection with the system which is trying to do bruteforce. If we
move to authenticating users directly at the director server, the director
servers imap-login director service should be anyways loaded on an a...