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MBOX-Line: From arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no Sun Jun 1 11:45:04 2008
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:41 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] Proxy IP forwarding
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Message-ID: <0i/azqanypELGcsgZG99yw.md5@lochnagar.oryx.com>
Timo Sirainen writes:
> Has anyone implemented some kind of a IP forwarding extension? So
> backend servers could see the original IPs instead of the proxy's. So
> login would go something like:
>
> 1 XFORWARD lip 1.2.3.4 lport 143 rip 4.5.6.7 rport 35353
> 2 LOGIN user pass
Login referrals? Cyrus Murder?
> I guess I could just implement it like that, but at least trying to be
> interoperable with another implementation would be nice. :)
I've done such things as an administrator on the TCP level, using
transparent proxying and load balancing. Sufficiently advanced hackery
is indistinguishable from magic. Sufficiently advanced hackery is
easily distinguished from a good idea. (Login referrals IMO have the
same characteristics.)
Arnt