IMAPS

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:55:56PM +0000, Nuno Marques wrote:

> I have sucessfuly configured nginx to receive IMAP/POP requests on SSL:
> 
>  server {
>                 listen     993;
>                 ssl on;
>                 ssl_certificate      /etc/nginx/cert.crt;
>                 ssl_certificate_key  /etc/nginx/key.pem;
>                 protocol   imap;
>                 proxy      on;
>         }
> 
> This works just fine, but I would like to know if it is possible to
> connect to the imap server using SSL too. I've created a php file to
> authenticate the users and redirect them to the right server:
> 
> 	header('Auth-Status: OK');
> 	header('Auth-Server: 127.0.0.1');
> 	header("Auth-Port: 145");
> 
> 
> Is there any directive to tell nginx to use SSL on the PHP file?
> 
> I know I can use stunnel to create tunnels between nginx and the imap/pop
> servers, but that solution looks a little bit ugly :)

No, nginx does not support SSL between itself and IMAP/POP3 backend.


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