imap proxy?

[Brian Henson]

Georgi Hristozov wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Brian Henson<bhenson at xenocomp.com> wrote:
>   
>> Can someone give me an example of how to do an IMAP and POP3 proxy in nginx.
>>  What i need to do is send all requests for domain1.com to one server and
>> all requests for domain2.com to another.  I have read the examples on the
>> wiki but I do not understand them.  I have a working HTTP and HTTPS install
>> now and would like to further secure my servers.  Any help would be
>> appreciated
>>
>>
>>
>> Brian.
>>
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't think that the IMAP protocol has something like the "Host"
> header in HTTP. In other words, the proxy cannot figure out which
> domain the user is trying to access. So you have to bind two different
> proxies on two separate IP addresses.
>
>   
Georgi,

    I know you can separate it by the letter it starts with. (fastmail 
does this)  If there was a host header or some variation there of it 
would be nice.  can i get a definite answer from someone who has used 
the imap proxy please?  the docs are incomplete on the features. 

thanks


brian