2016-11-17 9:11 GMT+01:00 Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com>: > Hi to all > I have some *production* pop3/inappropriate server that i would like to move > under a proxy > > Some questions: > 1. Keeping the same original hostname on the proxy (in example > mail.mydomain.tld) > and changing the hostname on the imap server, makes some troubles like MUA > redownloading all the messages? > Is dovecot (running on the imap server) happy seeing the hostname change? > What about maildirs, where the hostname is wrote on the mail file? > > 2. Dovecot proxy will proxy the whole pop3/imap traffic or only the login > auth? > I don't want to expose the mailservers to internet, all imap session must be > proxied through the proxy. > this because I'll use local IPs on each mail server.
Any advice on this, particurally on question 2 ? The only way to get the real mailserver IP address is doing a succesfull auth via proxy or even in case of login failure the response is caming from the real mail server ?