[Dovecot] Dovecot load balancing

[Rick Romero]

On Jul 31, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Thomas Hummel wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:26:06PM +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:
>> I don't quite understand the proxy_maybe option :
>
> Also, 2 things which aren't quite clear to me in the Wiki :
>
> a) Password forwarding
>
> Make sure that the authentication succeeds with any given password.  
> You can do this by using empty passwords. v1.1+ requires also that  
> you return nopassword field.
>
> -> Does that mean that the proxy has to accept only empty passwords  
> and that
>    that's the actual imap server that will deal with the actual  
> password ?
>
> b) The connections created to the destination server can't be TLS/ 
> SSL encrypted.
>
> Does it still work if the client is using SSL/TLS to connect to the  
> proxy ?
>

It seems to me it might be better to use something like UltraMonkey  
to do load balancing.   I'm going to go down this road in a week or so.

Rick