# Nginx mail proxy - dovecot ssl backend **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [November 25, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251 "2011-11-25T21:42:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/1 "2011-11-25T21:42:40Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? Thank you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - [http://enigmail.mozdev.org/](http://enigmail.mozdev.org/) iEYEARECAAYFAk7P/RwACgkQNRQApncg294jrgCfW/lRpMywRk2tq++wRE5u3sxM X1kAn31+gvYibdHLYM3Mv2HDaW/TjaHa =DK/D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Flavio_Torres)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/2 "2011-11-25T22:30:24Z")
Hello! On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 06:39:58PM -0200, Flavio Torres wrote: > Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? No, mail proxy doesn’t support ssl backends. Maxim D. ---
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Flavio_Torres)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/3 "2012-05-13T13:28:54Z")
Hi, Flavio. You’ll need following modifications to add SSL backends support to nginx’s mail proxy: [https://github.com/druga/unuzbl/tree/master/nginx-temp](https://github.com/druga/unuzbl/tree/master/nginx-temp) . It’s still a WIP (but 'll enough to cope with your task), so sorry, i didn’t converted my work into the form of patch. It’s done against 1.0.11 version of nginx. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx mail proxy - dovecot ssl backend](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,219069,226365#msg-226365)** > > \-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? Thank you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmai ---
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Flavio_Torres)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 11:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/4 "2014-02-15T23:43:22Z")
any chance this patch / change will be added to the default release? We run nginx-full 1.4.4 from Debian Wheezy Backports and the ‘issue’ described above still seems to apply (no hostname / SSL support for backend server). Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx mail proxy - dovecot ssl backend](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,219069,247602#msg-247602)** > > \-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? Thank you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmai ---
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Flavio_Torres)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 6:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/5 "2014-02-16T06:10:08Z")
Hello. I plan to beat all the ugliness and produce a clean patch very soon. I’ll let you know. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx mail proxy - dovecot ssl backend](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,219069,247608#msg-247608)** > > \-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? Thank you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmai ---
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Flavio_Torres)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/6 "2014-02-16T16:42:03Z")
dukzcry, that would be very very very nice 🙂 We are busy with an big change in our email environment (serving +/- 10.000 mailboxes). Currently we use Dovecot with NFS (IPsec) filesystems but we would like to change this to a firewalled dovecot backend + NginX as frontend. Looking forward to your patch and maybe inclusion in an upstream version! Kasper Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx mail proxy - dovecot ssl backend](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,219069,247617#msg-247617)** > > \-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? Thank you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmai ---
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Flavio_Torres)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/7 "2014-02-24T20:07:00Z")
Now, here is the minimal patch: [https://raw.github.com/druga/aeriebsd-tree/master/usr.sbin/nginx/patch-nginx\_mail\_proxy\_ssl\_backends.diff](https://raw.github.com/druga/aeriebsd-tree/master/usr.sbin/nginx/patch-nginx_mail_proxy_ssl_backends.diff) I do provide neither hostnames nor starttls support in it, because the code for their support is too much invasive ☹ P.S.: The patch isn’t good enough to be included into nginx. So if anybody is going to fix it, you’re welcome. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx mail proxy - dovecot ssl backend](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,219069,247910#msg-247910)** > > \-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? Thank you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmai ---
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Flavio_Torres)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 6:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/8 "2014-02-16T06:11:19Z")
P.S.: I think then it may be examined for inclusion into nginx, but not now in it’s current form 🙂 Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx mail proxy - dovecot ssl backend](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,219069,247609#msg-247609)** > > \-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? Thank you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmai ---
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Flavio_Torres)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/9 "2014-09-05T02:49:52Z")
I’m getting errors when I try to get the diff, is it still available? Thanks… Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx mail proxy - dovecot ssl backend](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,219069,253082#msg-253082)** > > \-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? Thank you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmai ---
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Flavio_Torres)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/10 "2014-09-05T23:49:38Z")
Thanks! I setup stunnel in the interim, but this will be more efficient. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx mail proxy - dovecot ssl backend](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,219069,253106#msg-253106)** > > \-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? Thank you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmai ---
**Author:** ![Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@Flavio\_Torres](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Flavio_Torres)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 5:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-mail-proxy-dovecot-ssl-backend/214251/11 "2014-09-05T05:54:24Z")
Yes, but got moved. Here’s the diff: [https://github.com/dukzcry/nginx/commit/f0af0f19ccc5e173fa4dddd3974cd05ef0b52692.diff](https://github.com/dukzcry/nginx/commit/f0af0f19ccc5e173fa4dddd3974cd05ef0b52692.diff) and here’s the patched tree: [GitHub - repos-holder/nginx](https://github.com/dukzcry/nginx) Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx mail proxy - dovecot ssl backend](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,219069,253083#msg-253083)** > > \-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Is SSL backends (dovecot) supported by nginx mail proxy ? Thank you! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmai