nginx: high performance smpt/pop/imap proxy - High Scalability -

nginx is a high performance smtp/pop/imap proxy that lets you do custom authorization and lookups and is very scalable. (just add nodes) Nginx by default is a reverse proxy and this is what it is doing here for pop/imap connections. It is also an excellelent reverse proxy for web servers. Advantage: You dont have to have a speacial database or ldap schema. Just an url to do auth and lookup with. A