Re: proxy / email / certificates help

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM Bret Stern <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm setting up and email server which is reverse proxyied behind a front
> end apache server.
>
>
> For the same domain...my dns has both a primary web server server, and
> an email server sitting behind a single wan ip.
>
> First question.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> At this point all email is working except smtp, which I'm thinking is a
> certificate problem.
>
>
> So I have certicates on the email server apache and the apache server
> providing the reverse proxy.
>
> And of course Postfix and Dovecot could have config issues, but mostly
> here I'm looking for verifying my described concept is
>
> achievable using apache.
>
>
> Comments or links to feasability and tips are always appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bret
>
>
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Email and HTTP server had nothing to do with each other, practically.  A
reverse HTTP proxy can be used to host a webmail interface to handle those
emails, sure, but then just handle the TLS termination either on the edge,
or the inner server.

For the latter, just use SSLProxyEngine on.