--On October 4, 2006 10:17:46 AM -0700 Andrew Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Michael Loftis wrote:
--On October 4, 2006 4:18:41 PM +0100 Jesus Roncero
<jesus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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