Module ngx_mail_imap_module

• Directives
• imap_auth
• imap_capabilities
• imap_client_buffer

Directives

Sets permitted methods of authentication for IMAP clients. Supported methods are:

login

AUTH=LOGIN

plain

AUTH=PLAIN

cram-md5

AUTH=CRAM-MD5. In order for this method to work, the password must be stored unencrypted.

external

AUTH=EXTERNAL (1.11.6).

Sets the IMAP protocol extensions list that is passed to the client in response to the CAPABILITY command. The authentication methods specified in the imap_auth directive and STARTTLS are automatically added to this list depending on the starttls directive value.

It makes sense to specify the extensions supported by the IMAP backends to which the clients are proxied (if these extensions are related to commands used after the authentication, when nginx transparently proxies a client connection to the backend).

The current list of standardized extensions is published at www.iana.org.

Sets the size of the buffer used for reading IMAP commands. By default, the buffer size is equal to one memory page. This is either 4K or 8K, depending on a platform.