How to make nginx mail auth connection persistent?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 05:32:55AM +0000, Prabhash Rathore wrote:

> Hi Maxim,
> 
> As per your suggestion to use Proxy server for auth_http directive in mail
> to enable keepalive connection, I recompiled my nginx with http and added
> following http configuration.
> 
> http {
>         server {
>                 server_name foo_server;
>                 location / {
>                         proxy_http_version 1.1;
>                         proxy_pass http://hostname:port/auth.php;
>                 }
>         }
> }
> 
> Now in mail directive, I am trying to refer this server from auth_http as
> follows but nginx does not recognize foo_server while start up. Could you
> please let me know how I can point "auth_http" to a proxy server configured
> in nginx config?
> 
> mail {
>        auth_http foo_server;    # my server name from http config
> }
> 
> Please let me know if this is not possible with just config chages then we
> will try to look at code change options.

You may want to ask for help in the nginx@ mailing list.  This 
mailing list if for developers and certainly not appropriate for 
this kind of questions.

You may also want to read nginx documentation as available here: 

http://nginx.org/en/docs/

Thank you.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/