Murder and Backend Authentication

[Rob Siemborski]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:

> > This sounds like that when a connection is referred it no longer "passes
> > thru" the front end server. Rather there is a direct connection made from
> > the client to the back end. Is this correct? If so, I'm assuming that this
> > would only be the case for IMAP operations and not POP.
>
> Yes, this will only happen with IMAP connections.

Actually, it will occur with timsieved connections as well, though if you
are not concerned about IMAP, I'm guessing you don't care about sieve
either.

Though, if you *are* only concerned with POP, there are defiantely better
solutions than using the Cyrus Murder.

-Rob

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