--On October 4, 2006 4:18:41 PM +0100 Jesus Roncero <jesus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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.
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