I don’t want to allow public network facing servers to be able to reach passwords database. And I want to segregate roles of the servers. If I will setup dovecot locally I will still have to provide it access to database (eg. /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf.ext).
On 27 Mar 2015, at 15:49, Benny Pedersen <m...@junc.eu> wrote: > Edgaras Lukoševičius skrev den 2015-03-27 14:34: >> Can’t dovecot authenticate against imap? > > will it be trusted ? > >> What I need is to make smtp authentication balanced and keep >> everything in backend (private network) > > dovecot is not a smtp server, thats why i say cyrus-sasl > > yes cyrus-sasl is ha-awail with rimap, but there is a minor problem with it, > haproxy and rimap have both the same problem to connect to one ip that times > out before the next ip is used, haproxy does imho not solve this better then > rimap