Re: [Dovecot] proxy, managesieve and ssl?

[Timo Sirainen]

On 11.1.2012, at 21.01, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:

> On a dovecot 2.0.14 proxy, I found that proxying managesieve works well 
> when using 'starttls' option in pass_attrs, but does not work when using 
> 'ssl' option. The backend server is also dovecot 2.0.14; when using the 
> ssl option, it reports "no auth attempts" in the logs about 
> managesieve-login, and meanwhile the MUA, Thunderbird with sieve plugin, 
> reports [TRYLATER] account is temporary disabled; no problem when using 
> starttls option on the proxy, all works well.
> 
> I would like to use IMAPs, instead of IMAP+STARTTLS, from proxy to 
> backend, and have Managesieve still working. Is this supported?

You'll need to kludge it a little bit. I guess you're using LDAP, since you 
mentioned pass_attrs?

protocol sieve {
  passdb {
     args = ldap-with-starttls.conf
  }
}
protocol !sieve {
  passdb {
     args = ldap-with-ssl.conf
  }
}