Hello!

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 06:04:02PM +0200, Florent Manens wrote:

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> Hi NGINX team,
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> I can read here :
> http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2007-March/000825.html
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> and in this thread :
> http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-ru/2009-July/026304.html
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> that the client certificate verification is not supported by NGINX (and that there is no RFE for it).
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> We want to implement client certificate verification for IMAP and POP connection and we plan to rely on NGINX for scalability.
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> I think that it is possible to implement client certificate verification in NGINX but I still need to know :
> * if it is a trivial task

More or less.

> * if I can do it only with addons

No.

> * why it isn't already in NGINX core ?

The second link (or, rather, Igor's reply to it) explains the
reason. It's more or less useless for large scale installations
where nginx mail proxy is generally used.

Maxim Dounin

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