On 2/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Igor Sysoev</b> <<a href="mailto:is@rambler-co.ru">is@rambler-co.ru</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></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 02:08:09PM -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 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 the
<br>> >> IMAP/POP3 module made absolutely no sense to me. Could someone give an<br>> >> example of a nginx.conf file that includes IMAP/POP3 configuration so 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 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></blockquote></div><br>So, only if I'm using more than one IMAP/POP3 servers, or more than one domain?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>matthew cowgur