Failing to authenticate on the frontends

[Andrew Morgan]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Michael Loftis wrote:

> --On October 4, 2006 10:17:46 AM -0700 Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Michael Loftis wrote:
>> 
>>> --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.
>> 
>> 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.

We did too.  :)

 	Andy