[plug] imap & pop3 servers

[Adrian Woodley]

Peter,

If you can give me some details of what you're trying to achieve, I can 
probably help you out with some setup and config.

Adrian

Peter wrote:
> 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/).
> 
> 
> NUTS!!!   I could really use some of this info at them moment...  but a
> three hour drive (each way) on a week night is just a bit much of a
> stretch...   
> 
> Any notes, recording or VIDEO! would be greatly appreciated...
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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