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Re: Good high volume IMAP daemon

Subject: Re: Good high volume IMAP daemon
From: Arne K. Haaje (arnehaaje.com)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 17:22:51 CST

Bennett Todd wrote:
>
> 2000-01-21-15:18:49 Terje Elde:
> > You should be able to use both Courier-imap and Cyrus with SSL.
> >
> > What you need is to run the ssl prog as a wrapper that accepts the
> > connection on the server side, and then connects itself to the
> > standard IMAP port, pushing the data from the user through.
>
> Be darned! Sure enough!
>
> And here I thought stunnel needed to be able to run the daemon
> inetd-style. This is way cool --- means stunnel can graft https
> functionality onto any http daemon. And simap onto any imap daemon.
> And ... yowza!

How does this work performance-wise ? Since you wrap the imapd daemon
running on its standard port, then also users that don't use ssl will
have to go throug it. Is that possible, or does eery user have to use
SSL ?

Arne

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