Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Mail server proxy

This last build configuration is somewhat special as it is dedicated to enabling mail server proxy features—a darker and less documented side of Nginx. The related features and modules are all enabled:

./configure --user=www-data --group=www-data --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module

If you wish to completely disable the HTTP serving features and only dedicate Nginx to mail proxying, you may add the --without-http switch.

In the previously listed commands, the user and group used for running the Nginx worker processes will be www-data, which implies that this user and group must exist on your system.