I have sucessfuly configured nginx to receive IMAP/POP requests on SSL:

server { listen 993; ssl on; ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/cert.crt; ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/key.pem; protocol imap; proxy on; }

This works just fine, but I would like to know if it is possible to connect to the imap server using SSL too. I've created a php file to authenticate the users and redirect them to the right server:

header('Auth-Status: OK'); header('Auth-Server: 127.0.0.1'); header("Auth-Port: 145");

Is there any directive to tell nginx to use SSL on the PHP file?

I know I can use stunnel to create tunnels between nginx and the imap/pop servers, but that solution looks a little bit ugly :)