NGINX SMTP Proxy

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Mon Oct 24 14:16:19 UTC 2011


Hello!

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 03:58:33PM +0200, Brane F. Gračnar wrote:

> On Monday 24 of October 2011 14:02:15 Juergen Gotteswinter wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > i already googled, but unfortanly i wasnt able to find a example for
> > nginx smtp proxy configuration. i wanted to setup as a simple smtp proxy
> > in front of a sendmail daemon.
> 
> 
> This one works for me:
> 
> mail {
> 
>   auth_http  localhost:9090/cgi-bin/auth;
>   server {
>     listen [a:b:c::d]:25;
> 
>     # this is SMTP proxy!
>     protocol smtp;
>     smtp_capabilities "PIPELINING" "SIZE 10240000" "VRFY" "ETRN" "ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES" "8BITMIME" "DSN";

The "PIPELINING" here may be problematic, as out of the box nginx 
*doesn't* support SMTP pipelining.

Maxim Dounin

> 
>     server_name maili2.prod.interseek.com;
> 
>     proxy on;
>     proxy_timeout 30;
>     proxy_pass_error_message on;
>     
>     # only if upstream supports XCLIENT
>     xclient on;
> 
>     smtp_auth none;
>     so_keepalive on;
> 
> 
>   }
> }
> 
> Brane
> 
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