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How to setup nginx to proxy my smtp mail server

I am having nodejs SMTP server which I made using module “smtp-server”. It is running locally at 127.0.0.1:9001 using pm2 module and I wanted to know how can i configure it with nginx. Currently I am reffering to this site: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/mail-proxy/mail-proxy/

I ran complete example they gave me which is as follows:

worker_processes auto;

mail {
    server_name mail.example.com;
    auth_http   localhost:9000/cgi-bin/nginxauth.cgi;

    proxy_pass_error_message on;

    ssl                 on;
    ssl_certificate     /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/certs/server.key;
    ssl_protocols       TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers         HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_session_timeout 10m;

    server {
        listen     25;
        protocol   smtp;
        smtp_auth  login plain cram-md5;
    }

    server {
        listen    110;
        protocol  pop3;
        pop3_auth plain apop cram-md5;
}

     server {
        listen   143;
        protocol imap;
    }
}

I wanted to know how to connnect my nodejs smtp server to nginx as the code above does not ask anywhere for url to smtp server.


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Bobby Iliev
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August 4, 2022

Hi there,

The Nginx Mail proxy is only available with NGINX Plus. Do you have NGINX Plus installed or do you have the standard NGINX service instead?

If this is the case, you would need to start by following the steps here on how to install NGINX Plus in order to get that to work:

https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/installing-nginx/installing-nginx-plus/

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby

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