Appropriate use for nginx?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:55:50PM -0700, Drew DeNardo wrote:

> My employer's mail server requires TLS authentication for POP3 access.
> 
> I'd like to use OTRS for help desk ticketing -- and it fetches e-mail via POP3.  It does not support TLS authentication.
> 
> Could I use nginx to proxy POP3 requests allowing OTRS to connect to nginx with straight POP3, but instead doing TLS-authenticated POP3 when connecting to the real server?

No, nginx can not proxy mail session to the SSL backends.


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