Author: Simon Capstick Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [Job] IMAP Proxy & LDAP integration.
Simon Capstick wrote: > Adrian Bridgett wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 17:20:01 +0000 (+0000), Simon Capstick wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A small job:
>>>
>>> Has anyone had experience of setting up a (secure) IMAP proxy along with
>>> a public CA certificate? LDAP integration, along with setting up
>>> OpenLDAP to authenticate users would be a real bonus.
>> IMAP proxy? What's the backend email storage? I use IMAP (dovecot)
>> with Maildir storage personally. The box itself is all LDAP'd up so
>> the "local accounts" are in reality LDAP ones.
>>
>> Dovecot also supports directly querying LDAP (including TLS goodness).
>>
>> Adrian
>
> We're using courier-imap on Debian internally. I don't want this server
> open to the outside world. Instead I would like another courier-imap in
> proxy mode, preferably in a DMZ, using fail2ban, and authorising against
> a list of accounts marked as having remote access. It's not something I
> have time to try out myself and get right. I've read Dovecot may not
> play as nice with Blackberries (our main requirement) due to some issue
> with the IMAP IDLE command - I may be wrong.
>
> Simon
> I should add we use Maildir storage.
