Help on POP3 proxy setup

[Igor Sysoev]

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.


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Igor Sysoev
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