Help on POP3 proxy setup

scuba at centroin.com.br scuba at centroin.com.br
Tue Jul 15 00:07:08 MSD 2008


Hi Igor,

	It's working now, thank you.
	Just two points:
	
	kill -HUP does not work if I want to reload the modified 
mailauth.pm module. Not a real problem, though. 

	Since it's not doing any real authentication task (it's passed 
direct to the pop server) an wrong login/pass returns an "Internal Server 
error", the connection is droped and holds the mailbox locked until the 
popper server timeout.

- Marcelo Souza	

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Igor Sysoev wrote:

|On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:49:03AM -0300, scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
|
|> Igor,
|> 
|> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Igor Sysoev wrote:
|> 
|> |On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:41:58AM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:
|> |
|> |> 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.
|> |
|> |No, error in this case will be 'auth http server 127.0.0.1:8080 sent
|> |invalid server address:"myserver.domain.com" while in http auth state'
|> |
|> |Probably, you have changed mailauth.pm and have not reconfigure nginx:
|> |it uses old compiled mailauth.pm.
|> 
|> 	It seems to be using the modified version. It's copied to perl/lib 
|> under nginx home, and I restarted the master. Whatelse should be done?
|> 	Can you send (or point) me a basic working authorization script?
|
|This is working prototype (I've tested it now), just set IP in Auth-Server
|header. If it still does not work, could you create debug log ?
|
|
|-- 
|Igor Sysoev
|http://sysoev.ru/en/
|


- Marcelo






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