Re: Blackberry IMAP proxy

scott hollatz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.perdition.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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.
	[stuff deleted]

Very lightweight!  We have 4 *virtual* perdition systems in DNS round-robin
servicing thousands of users.

We were running perdition on dedicated hardware for over 7 years; last
year we went virtual.  Still runs slick.

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scott hollatz                                        net [email protected]
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