[Dovecot] Released Pigeonhole v0.4.0 for Dovecot v2.2.1.

Patrick Ben Koetter p at sys4.de
Sat May 11 00:00:18 EEST 2013


* Stephan Bosch <stephan at rename-it.nl>:
> On 5/10/2013 3:02 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> >* Stephan Bosch <stephan at rename-it.nl>:
> >>But I don't quite understand how this is different from XCLIENT,
> >>apart from the SOURCE and IDENT items perhaps.
> >XCLIENT impersonates a client and the SMTP server will act as if the XCLIENT
> >was the real client, e.g. it will apply ACLs and other policies to the XCLIENT
> >personality.
> >
> >XFORWARD will not alter the SMTP server behaviour. The client and message data
> >from XFORWARD will only be used for logging purposes.
> 
> Ah.
> 
> One question: what should I do when the server allows both of these?
> Or is that impossible?

It is possible to offer both capabilities and I think the goal defines if you
should impersonate another client or merely forward client meta data.

p at rick


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