Help on POP3 proxy setup

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:32:09PM +0000, Marcelo Souza wrote:

> I was just introduced to Nginx and I'm in trouble to setup it as a proxy for my
> POP3 servers. 
> I'm using a modified (test) version of the mailauth.pm to understand the program
> behavior, but it's showing the following error message in log:
> 
> 2008/07/08 15:25:17 [error] 69652#0: *7 auth http server 127.0.0.1:8080 did not 
> send server or port while in http auth state, client: 127.0.0.1, server: 0.0.0.0
> :11000, login: "anyuser"
> 
> Connecting to the POP:  localhost:11000 (test pop proxy with nginx), gives: 
> 
> -ERR internal server error
> 
> After valid user info.
> 
> Here are the mailauth.pm with hardcoded values, and the nginx.conf:
> 
> [mailauth.pm]
> package mailauth;
> use nginx;
> 
> sub handler {
>     my $r = shift;
>             
>             $r->header_out("Auth-Status", "OK") ;
>             $r->header_out("Auth-Server", "myserver.domain.com" );
>             $r->header_out("Auth-Port", "100");
>             $r->send_http_header("text/html");
>             return OK;
> }
> 1;
> __END__

nginx does not understand DNS names in Auth-Server, only IPs.
I need to make the error message more clear.


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