Failing to authenticate on the frontends

[Michael Loftis]

--On October 4, 2006 4:18:41 PM +0100 Jesus Roncero <jesus at mxtelecom.com> 
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.

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