[olug] IMAPS proxy?

[Sam Tetherow]

Not sure how stunnel would increase your exposure over what a IMAP proxy 
would, but then maybe I'm missing something?

I'm pretty sure when we were at NIC we used stunnel to SSL proxy from 
outlook to Cyrus for corporate.

Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless

Obi-Wan wrote:
>>> The only IMAP proxy I've been able to find is a Russian program
>>> named nginx (Engine-X), but English documentation is sparse, and
>>> I can't find anything that tells how to configure an IMAPS proxy
>>> (although it does claim to support it).
>>>       
>> I've heard _wonderful_ things about nginx, if you can get it going.
>> It's supposedly fast as hell.
>>     
>
> This morning, I ran across Perdition, which claims to do what I want.
> http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/
>
> It hasn't been updated recently except for one security patch, and
> the docs are still spotty, but far better than nginx.  I'm gonna
> give that a shot and see how it goes.  Available documentation may
> be the deciding factor on which route I take.
>
> I may give stunnel a try, too.  In that case, I'd still need an IMAP
> proxy, as stunnel merely adds the SSL capability.  We're not gonna
> expose our mail server directly to the outside world.
>
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