nginx in 5.2 without mail proxy features - Reasons?

2013-04-19 Thread Bruno Flueckiger
Today I wanted to test the mail reverse proxy features of nginx. For this I've installed a fresh VM running release 5.2. To my surprise I had to realize that nginx is compiled without the mail proxy features in the base system. [bruno@gateway ~]$ /usr/sbin/nginx -V nginx version: nginx/1.2.2

Re: nginx in 5.2 without mail proxy features - Reasons?

2013-04-19 Thread Jiri B
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:59:17PM +0200, Bruno Flueckiger wrote: --without-mail_pop3_module --without-mail_imap_module --without-mail_smtp_module The last two lines show that all three mail modules (POP3/IMAP/SMTP) had been disabled by configure before compilation took place. Can anybody

Re: nginx in 5.2 without mail proxy features - Reasons?

2013-04-19 Thread Bruno Flueckiger
On 19.04.2013 14:32, Jiri B wrote: I would say maybe because nginx' purpose in base install is to be webserver ? :) You can use one from ports. jirib The ports tree didn't come to my mind when I've been writing my mail. Thanks for the hint. I see the point that it is meant to be a