Question regarding IMAP & SMTP Proxy

[Matthieu Sevestre]

Hello

Thanks for this reply... in fact I owuld only have 2/3 connections no more.

simple thing for me would be SSH tunneling but unfortunately, it's very unstable on the connection type I use, that's why I was searching in the Proxies world.

Anyway if you say yourself that nginx would be difficult to configure for this, I'll seek for something else.

Thanks very much !

Matt

Igor Sysoev a e'crit :
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:09:08PM +0100, Matthieu Sevestre wrote:
> 
>> I'm new to Nginx. I'm facing a problem and perhaps nginx may be able to 
>> help me :)
>>
>> Considering that Nginx will run on a server (let's say with LAN IP 
>> 192.168.2.10), I would like to be able to use as server setting in my 
>> mailer:
>> - IMAP server: 192.168.2.10 / nginx listen port #1
>> - SMTP server: 192.168.2.10 / nginx listen port #2
>>
>> Final IMAP/SMTP servers to access are:
>> - IMAP: imap.gmail.com through SSL (port #993)
>> - SMTP: smtp.gmail.com through port #25
>>
>> Will Nginx be able to "forward" my requests correctly or did I 
>> misunderstood its capabilities ?
>>
>> If Nginx is able to do this, could you help me to configure it please 
>> because after having a look to the wiki, I did not found anything related 
>> to the use I wish :) ?
> 
> You probably may use nginx in this way, however, it will be complex setup:
> you need authorization server, that will route your sessions to gmail.
> 
> The main purpose of mail proxy is handling thousands of incoming sessions:
> http://blog.fastmail.fm/2007/01/04/webimappop-frontend-proxies-changed-to-nginx/
> 
> If you have tens or so sessions you do not need nginx.
> Try to look something else.
> 
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