IMAP/POP3 Configuration

[Matthew Cowgur]

On 2/19/07, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:08:09PM -0600, Matthew Cowgur wrote:
>
> > Ah, I see. So I can use it to proxy a request that comes in to
> > mail.domain.com to a mail server, then? Can someone suggest a good piece
> of
> > mail software to use with Nginx, or does it matter more what kind of
> > functionality I want?
>
> You need nginx IMAP/POP3 proxy only if
>
> 1) you have several IMAP/POP3 backends,
> 2) you need the single enter point, say, mail.domain.com,
> 3) and you have a LOT of IMAP/POP3 accounts (e.g. as
>    fastmail.fm: http://blog.fastmail.fm/?p=592 )
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>
> > On 2/19/07, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >On 2/19/07, Matthew Cowgur <matt.cowgur at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> I'm completely new to running a server, and I realized after looking
> > >through
> > >> the wiki that the information & examples there regarding configuring
> the
> > >> IMAP/POP3 module made absolutely no sense to me. Could someone give
> an
> > >> example of a nginx.conf file that includes IMAP/POP3 configuration so
> I
> > >can
> > >> get an idea of where it needs to go in there? Also, do I need another
> > >tool
> > >> to setup email accounts, and if not, where does that configuration
> go?
> > >
> > >nginx can proxy/load balance IMAP/POP3, but it is not a server. There
> > >is an example of this on the wiki.
> > >
> > >http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxImapProxyExample
> > >
> > >It doesn't sound like this is what you need though. You need another
> > >software package entirely if you want to serve IMAP or POP3.
>
>
So, only if I'm using more than one IMAP/POP3 servers, or more than one
domain?

-- 
matthew cowgur
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