<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Igor Sysoev</b> <<a href="mailto:is@rambler-co.ru">is@rambler-co.ru</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:31:35PM -0600, Matthew Cowgur wrote:<br><br>> On 2/19/07, Igor Sysoev <<a href="mailto:is@rambler-co.ru">is@rambler-co.ru</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> >On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:08:09PM -0600, Matthew Cowgur wrote:
<br>> ><br>> >> Ah, I see. So I can use it to proxy a request that comes in to<br>> >> <a href="http://mail.domain.com">mail.domain.com</a> to a mail server, then? Can someone suggest a good piece<br>
> >of<br>> >> mail software to use with Nginx, or does it matter more what kind of<br>> >> functionality I want?<br>> ><br>> >You need nginx IMAP/POP3 proxy only if<br>> ><br>> >1) you have several IMAP/POP3 backends,
<br>> >2) you need the single enter point, say, <a href="http://mail.domain.com">mail.domain.com</a>,<br>> >3) and you have a LOT of IMAP/POP3 accounts (e.g. as<br>> > <a href="http://fastmail.fm">fastmail.fm
</a>: <a href="http://blog.fastmail.fm/?p=592">http://blog.fastmail.fm/?p=592</a> )<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >--<br>> >Igor Sysoev<br>> ><a href="http://sysoev.ru/en/">http://sysoev.ru/en/</a><br>> >
<br>> ><br>> >> On 2/19/07, Bob Ippolito <<a href="mailto:bob@redivi.com">bob@redivi.com</a>> wrote:<br>> >> ><br>> >> >On 2/19/07, Matthew Cowgur <<a href="mailto:matt.cowgur@gmail.com">
matt.cowgur@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> >> >> I'm completely new to running a server, and I realized after looking<br>> >> >through<br>> >> >> the wiki that the information & examples there regarding configuring
<br>> >the<br>> >> >> IMAP/POP3 module made absolutely no sense to me. Could someone give<br>> >an<br>> >> >> example of a nginx.conf file that includes IMAP/POP3 configuration so
<br>> >I<br>> >> >can<br>> >> >> get an idea of where it needs to go in there? Also, do I need another<br>> >> >tool<br>> >> >> to setup email accounts, and if not, where does that configuration
<br>> >go?<br>> >> ><br>> >> >nginx can proxy/load balance IMAP/POP3, but it is not a server. There<br>> >> >is an example of this on the wiki.<br>> >> ><br>> >> >
<a href="http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxImapProxyExample">http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxImapProxyExample</a><br>> >> ><br>> >> >It doesn't sound like this is what you need though. You need another
<br>> >> >software package entirely if you want to serve IMAP or POP3.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> So, only if I'm using more than one IMAP/POP3 servers, or more than one<br>> domain?<br><br>More than one server. For example, if
<a href="mailto:user1@domain.com">user1@domain.com</a>'s mail is stored<br>on one server and <a href="mailto:user2@domain.com">user2@domain.com</a>'s mail is stored on another server<br>due to the disk speed or space constraints. If all users live on
<br>single server, then you do not need the proxy.<br><br><br>--<br>Igor Sysoev<br><a href="http://sysoev.ru/en/">http://sysoev.ru/en/</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>Ok. Thanks!<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>matthew cowgur