[plug] imap & pop3 servers

[Tim Bowden]

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 11:47 +0800, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> Tim,
> 
> I recently setup a multi-domain mail server for some bush fire brigades, 
> using LDAP, Exim 4 and Dovecot. The setup allows the domains to be 
> individually administered for accounts and aliases, with a relatively 
> easy to use web interface.
> 
> Additionally, I setup Roundcube as a webmail interface, with several 
> address books stored in LDAP - a per-account personal address book, a 
> per-domain address book and a global address book, which contains ever 
> account setup on the system.
> 
> Hopefully I'll be able to detail some of the setup of this tonight at my 
> presentation (http://plug.linux.org.au/events/seminar/).
> 
> And of course, once you've got that setup, why stop there? Its trivial 
> to add a jabber/XMPP server which authenticates against LDAP, so your 
> users have the same username and password for their email and jabber 
> accounts.
> 

LDAP has been on my todo list for a while.  I've managed without it so
far but the time is getting closer when I'll have to use it so I'll be
there no matter what.

Thanks,
Tim

> Cheers,
> 
> Adrian
> 
> Tim Bowden wrote:
> > I'm setting up a new server that needs to provide simple imap &/or pop3
> > for only a few accounts.  Normally I'd just put dovecot on because it's
> > easy (apt-get install...) and be done with it, but at some point this
> > server will need to serve multiple domains (though only a reasonably
> > small number of accounts).  I will require that almost all of those
> > users /don't/ have shell accounts.  Should I be looking at something
> > else to handle the added complexity (cyrus? others?) or will dovecot
> > handle it?
> > 
> > All advice appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tim Bowden
> 
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