From: Michael Loftis (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 14:41:32 EDT
--On October 4, 2006 10:17:46 AM -0700 Andrew Morgan <>
wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Michael Loftis wrote:
>
>> --On October 4, 2006 4:18:41 PM +0100 Jesus Roncero
>> <> wrote:
>>
>> <...>>
>>> So, the question is, isn't the frontend supposed to contact the backend
>>> responsible of that mailbox in order to authenticate the user? or it
>>> needs to have "joe"'s password at the frontend as well?
>>
>> Authentication of the user happens at the frontend. The frontend then
>> uses the proxy credentials to authorize as the user on the backend.
>> The backends don't need a full user database, just the proxy
>> information.
>
> Yes and no. If an IMAP client support referrals, the frontends will
> return a referral to the appropriate backend. So, the client may connect
> to the backend as well in some cases.
Oops, I forgot about that detail. We locally patched referrals out of our
IMAP proxies.
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