nginx-mail and proxy protocol

[Kees Bos]

On do, 2017-04-20 at 17:12 +0300, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
> Hi Kees,
> 
> On 20/04/2017 17:06, Kees Bos wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Does someone have experience with nginx-mail and the proxy
> > protocol?
> > 
> > Does nginx-mail have (or will is get) support for the
> > 'proxy_protocol'
> > parameter to the 'listen' directive?
> > 
> It doesn't. There were no plans for that basically because nobody
> asked before.
> 
> What's your backend software which supports proxy proto?
> 
> 

I'm using haproxy in front of zimbra, which uses nginx to map the
pop/imap connections to the right mail store. The (nginx) pop/imap thus
cannot determine the right source ip unless the proxy protocol would we
supported.