Hello!

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:45:33PM +0530, derwyn wrote:

> Hi,
> I've found on the site the code in php to authenticate the users for
> imap/pop.
> the php app server sees the user and password as
> HTTP_AUTH_USER
> HTTP_AUTH_PASS
> HTTP_AUTH_PROTOCOL
>
> Is it also possible to get the port that the user is connection to ie
> 110,143 or 993,995 with some HTTP_AUTH_ variable

You may add arbitrary headers via auth_http_header directive.
E.g.:

mail {
auth_http ...

server {
listen 110;
protocol pop3;

auth_http_header X-Auth-Port 110;

...
}

server {
listen 995;
protocol pop3;

ssl on;

auth_http_header X-Auth-Port 995;

...
}
}

Maxim Dounin