Re: Blackberry IMAP proxy
scott hollatz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.perdition.user |
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> 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. -- scott hollatz net [email protected] information technology systems and services tel +1 218 726 8851 university of minnesota duluth mn usa fax +1 218 726 7674 -- "Asn aD ta zlAp em uT zt33rg" ______________________________________________ Perdition-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.vergenet.net/listinfo/perdition-users
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