mail proxy config

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:05:00PM +0200, mdl2 at alternet-europe.com wrote:

[...]
> I think I am missing something in the configuration at the authentication 
> stage.
>
> Do I need to configure the module auth somewhere ? it doesn't exist in the 
> source or in the cgi-bin directory.

You have to write authentication script.  The first thing nginx 
does is passing authentication requests to auth_http endpoint.  If 
nothing correctly answers at specified url - it won't be able to 
do anything.

> I also tried to use the php script that is given as an example  but I am 
> getting errors on the script

You should either fix errors or write your own script.

[...]
>    auth_http <http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxMailAuthModule#auth_http>  localhost:8000/cgi-bin/auth <http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxMailCoreModule#auth>;
>
>    pop3_capabilities <http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxMailCoreModule#pop3_capabilities>  "TOP"  "USER";
>    imap_capabilities <http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxMailCoreModule#imap_capabilities>  "IMAP4rev1"  "UIDPLUS";

Do you really have all this <http://...> in your config?  You 
shouldn't.

Maxim Dounin