Forum: NGINX Why does the unauthenticated SMTP proxy include auth_http statement?

Hi all,

Can anyone throw some light on this for me please?

Looking at:
http://wiki.nginx.org/Faq#How_can_Nginx_be_deploye...

It says "The example is for unauthenticated e-mail as you can see", but
the example clearly shows authentication:

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mail { server_name mail.somedomain.com;
     auth_http localhost:8008/auth-smtppass.php;
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So I'm confused - should this be in there? Because if so, I'm obviously
missing something about what unauthenticated means...

-Andy

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Hello!

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:56:54PM +0000, Andy D'Arcy Jewell wrote:

> mail { server_name mail.somedomain.com;
>     auth_http localhost:8008/auth-smtppass.php;
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> So I'm confused - should this be in there? Because if so, I'm
> obviously missing something about what unauthenticated means...

The "auth_method none" still doesn't mean there is no
authentication/authorization at all, it means that it's done
without requiring a user to provide login/password.  Auth script
is still expected to do some form of authorization, e.g. by
checking ip and source/destination addresses provided.

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Maxim Dounin
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