Murder and Backend Authentication

[Hank Beatty]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:


> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Hank Beatty wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking that in my case this isn't necessarily a problem because
the
> > clients will not be able to reach the back end servers so all
communication
> > will have to be proxied.
>
> This is not the way the aggregator works.  It is always possible (and
> sometimes required, especailly for administrative operations) for a
> frontend to refer a client to the backend for particular operations.

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.

>
> This is a large performace win for clients which susport referrals (and as
> I said above, is necessary for some administrative operations).
>
> -Rob
>
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