Re: Best way to achive email hosting for several domains
Please, any thoughts here? Best regards. Robi. Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi. I'd like to know what are the best practices for implementing email hosting for several domains. The service is accessible via pop/imap/webmail Apart from that, I'd like to ask for comments on the actual comfiguration.. The system is already configured and running as follows: # uname -rms FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p23 i386 MTA:sendmail imap/pop:mail/imap-uw webmail:horde from ports Every mailbox as a local unix account, ie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- a1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- a2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- b1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- b2 etc.. Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned with the webmail login.. I'd like [EMAIL PROTECTED] to login with a username equal to the email, but as the authentication in horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to proceed with that.. Any hints/suggestions are welcome. Thank you and best regards. Robi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best way to achive email hosting for several domains
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:29:29 +0100
Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned with the
webmail login.. I'd like [EMAIL PROTECTED] to login with a
username equal to the email, but as the authentication in
horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to proceed with that..
Hi Roberto,
I try to avoid that beast of horde...but most webmail products that I've seen
(including Horde, if memory doesn't fail me), simply make an imap connection to
your server and pass on whatever auth you give to it IOW, whatever works
for imap works with webmail.
anyway, it wouldn't be too hard to test, right?
B
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Re: Best way to achive email hosting for several domains
--- Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:29:29 +0100 Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned with the webmail login.. I'd like [EMAIL PROTECTED] to login with a username equal to the email, but as the authentication in horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to proceed with that.. Hi Roberto, I try to avoid that beast of horde...but most webmail products that I've seen (including Horde, if memory doesn't fail me), simply make an imap connection to your server and pass on whatever auth you give to it IOW, whatever works for imap works with webmail. anyway, it wouldn't be too hard to test, right? B This is indeed how squirrelmail works, and I've found it to be incredibly easy to roll squirrelmail out. Since people will be sending authentication credentials, you may want to set it up on an SSL-enabled web host so that they are not sent in the clear. Generally, I use dovecot which allows me to listen on all IPs for imap/ssl connections, and localhost only for imap non-ssl (for squirrelmail's benefit), then have squirrelmail installed under an ssl vhost, so that users can't send their credentials over the internet in the clear. Take care, mdh Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best way to achive email hosting for several domains
This is indeed how squirrelmail works, and I've found it to be incredibly easy to roll squirrelmail out. sqwebmail is excellent webmail software Since people will be sending authentication credentials, you may want to set it up on an SSL-enabled web host so that they are not sent in the clear. Generally, I use dovecot which allows me to listen on all IPs for imap/ssl connections, and localhost only for imap non-ssl (for squirrelmail's benefit), then have squirrelmail installed under an ssl vhost, so that users can't send their credentials over the internet in the clear. Take care, mdh Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best way to achive email hosting for several domains
Hi Norberto.
Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:29:29 +0100
Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned with the
webmail login.. I'd like [EMAIL PROTECTED] to login with a
username equal to the email, but as the authentication in
horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to proceed with that..
Hi Roberto,
I try to avoid that beast of horde...but most webmail products that I've seen
(including Horde, if memory doesn't fail me), simply make an imap connection to
your server and pass on whatever auth you give to it IOW, whatever works
for imap works with webmail.
Yes.. That's how it works now.. horde simply delegates to imp that
does the authentication to the imap server.. what I mean is that
as users unix accounts are named like aaa01, aaa02, aab01, but
they are mapped to email addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'd like to let
the user authenticate to the webmail using the email address,
and then have some piece of software map the email address to
the local unix account before attempting the auth process..
I found out that imp provides hook points to do this kind
of things and maybe I'll go that direction, but I just
would like to hear what other people are doing.. maybe
have aliases in /etc/passwd (ie different usernames, same UID/GID)?
Best regards.
Robi.
anyway, it wouldn't be too hard to test, right?
B
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Re: Best way to achive email hosting for several domains
You could have your imapd authenticate against
something other than /etc/passwd, and map the
usernames in said other authentication mechanism to
the appropriate mail boxes. There's no real reason
nowadays to have a system user for every email user.
Generally speaking, what you want likely doesn't
concern your webmail app at all so much as it does
your imapd. I use dovecot and have found its
configuration to be extremely flexible while not
overwhelmingly complex. You may want to check it out.
I'm using it with a mysql backend as well as exim,
and they have no problem authenticating against the
same mysql tables very easily.
Take care, mdh
--- Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Norberto.
Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:29:29 +0100
Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit
concerned with the
webmail login.. I'd like [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
login with a
username equal to the email, but as the
authentication in
horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to
proceed with that..
Hi Roberto,
I try to avoid that beast of horde...but most
webmail products that I've seen
(including Horde, if memory doesn't fail me),
simply make an imap connection to
your server and pass on whatever auth you give to
it IOW, whatever works
for imap works with webmail.
Yes.. That's how it works now.. horde simply
delegates to imp that
does the authentication to the imap server.. what I
mean is that
as users unix accounts are named like aaa01, aaa02,
aab01, but
they are mapped to email addresses like
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], I'd
like to let
the user authenticate to the webmail using the email
address,
and then have some piece of software map the email
address to
the local unix account before attempting the auth
process..
I found out that imp provides hook points to do this
kind
of things and maybe I'll go that direction, but I
just
would like to hear what other people are doing..
maybe
have aliases in /etc/passwd (ie different usernames,
same UID/GID)?
Best regards.
Robi.
anyway, it wouldn't be too hard to test, right?
B
_
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Best way to achive email hosting for several domains
Hi. I'd like to know what are the best practices for implementing email hosting for several domains. The service is accessible via pop/imap/webmail Apart from that, I'd like to ask for comments on the actual comfiguration.. The system is already configured and running as follows: # uname -rms FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p23 i386 MTA:sendmail imap/pop: mail/imap-uw webmail:horde from ports Every mailbox as a local unix account, ie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- a1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- a2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- b1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- b2 etc.. Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned with the webmail login.. I'd like [EMAIL PROTECTED] to login with a username equal to the email, but as the authentication in horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to proceed with that.. Any hints/suggestions are welcome. Thank you and best regards. Robi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
