Re: Blackberry IMAP proxy

Main thing is you can advertise a single point for checking email
and abstract everything behind that.  If you decided to switch to a
different mail backend you just change where the proxy points
them no need to communicate with users about changing their
mail server blah blah blah.

Your case sounds pretty simple.

We redirect our incoming IMAP to the SSL port on the backend.
So inbound IMAP (143) + TLS -> backend (993) SSL.

Actually we run all of POP, POPS, IMAP, IMAPS.
We use a separate config file for the daemon that
runs on each port so we can turn on debug & verbose
modes JUST for 1 of the 4 ports if we need to debug.

I don't know what you mean to say about the passwords.

Ordinarily speaking Perdition is an application proxy.  It acts
as the traffic cop directing your session and doesn't itself
do authentication I think.  Been a while since I configured it
our Perdition "just works" for many years now.

It's pretty lightweight and could run in a VM for
just a handful of users like your case.

Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I have a half a dozen users who want to use IMAP to read e-mail off of the local 
> server. I'm reluctant to expose the mail server to the net for obvious reasons 
> and I'm looking for a proxy I can use to improve security just a little bit.
>
> All I need is SSL for the input to the proxy. It would be nice if I could use 
> one password for the proxy and another password for the user's account. It would 
> also be nice if I could use SSL between the proxy and the IMAP server.
>
> It looks like perdition can fill some of my needs but I just wanted a 
> confirmation make sure my reading skills were up to snuff
>
> SSL_mode looks like it contains everything a need for inbound and outbound SSL
>
> outgoing_server lets me specify the target server if I don't have a database of 
> users. I assume this means that the user password coming in is the same used by 
> the IMAP server itself.
>
> that looks like it should cover what I need if I'm interpreting things correctly.
>
> --- eric
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