pop3 proxy

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Wed Sep 3 15:25:43 MSD 2008


Hello!

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:06:08PM +0100, Istvan Szukacs wrote:

>I am preparing a pop3 proxy with nginx and wondering if somebody could
>help...
>
>I have N hosts behind one firewall and I would like to reach the
>external pop3 server through this proxy.
>
>pop3 {
>    
> 
>
>    pop3_capabilities <http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxMailCoreModule#pop3_capabilities>  "TOP"  "USER";
> 
> 
>    server <http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpCoreModule#server> {
>        listen <http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpCoreModule#listen>     110;
>        protocol <http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxMailCoreModule#protocol>   pop3;
>        proxy <http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxMailProxyModule#proxy>      on;
>    }
>
>}
>
>
>Where and how should i define the real pop3 server?

Real pop3 server ip address must be returned by your auth_http 
script in Auth-Server header.

See http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxMailCoreModule#auth and 
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxMailAuthModule for details.

Maxim Dounin





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