> Am 04.06.2015 um 20:13 schrieb dethegeek <[email protected]>: > > Hi > > Still building a nginx reverse proxy for my mail servers. Thanks to the > community, I now have a secure connection between nginx and my backend mail > server. > > POP and IMAP are working well, from a MUA to my server. > > I'm wondering how nginx can manage SMTP coonnections as it is used by both > MUA and MTA. > > A MUA must authenticate before sending mails; and my http_auth backend is > able to authenticate users. More precisely, the authentication backend > answers a server (auth-server / auth-port) depending on the domain of the > destination email address. > > Now I guess I have to accept incoming emails without authentication if the > client is a MTA, but I don't find a obvious way to distingish a MUA and a > MTA and let mu auth backend behave depending on that. > > How to achieve that ? >
MUA = Port 587 + 465 MTA = Port 25 Maybe use something like Haraka for SMTP? It’s supposed to be for SMTP-servers what NGINX is for Webservers ;-) Rainer _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
