From: Andrew Morgan (no email)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2006 - 13:52:22 EDT
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Jesus Roncero wrote:
> Michael Loftis wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>
> Umm, isn't there an option on the configuration to disable referrals? If not,
> do you have that patch available?
I've attached the patch to this message. We use it with Cyrus v2.2.12
here. I don't know if it works or applies cleanly to v2.3.x.
Andy
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