[plug] Webmail

[Adrian Woodley]

I run Roundcube on my two servers (personal one and a web service for 
volunteer fire brigades - bfb.asn.au).

As everyone has said, its very pretty and easy to setup. It even allows 
multiple address books. I run three; personal, group and global. Anyone 
in the same domain can view/edit the group address book and the global 
address book is pulled from the accounts in LDAP. This isn't the 
standard setup, but it does show how flexible the system is.

Another nice feature is per-domain configuration. The one Roundcube 
install can have different settings depending on which domain you use to 
access it. This allows features like local-part only usernames (rather 
than using the full email address to log in) and auto-completing domain 
names for new email addresses.

A feature which I would like to develop/hack is the ability to select 
the login domain/realm based on a redirected page. In this way, users 
accessing mail.foo.com, would be redirected to https://mail.secure.com/ 
but have the domain name foo.com preselected. This side-steps the 
restriction of a single SSL Cert per IP on the web server[1].

I have been very happy with roundcube, as have my users. If you're 
interested in having a look at a live setup, drop me an email and I'll 
organise a temporary account.

Cheers,

Adrian

[1] If more ppl used IPv6 and/or browsers which support TLS, this could 
be solved.

On 20/07/10 18:39, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all.
>
> I don't want to start a religious war here, but I'd like some advice.
>
> I've never set up or run a webmail system before, but I kinda need to 
> now.
>
> I have a co-located server. It runs Debian stable. It runs mail for 
> about 6 domains and it really only serves about 4 users. (Exim4 
> virtual hosting). I run qpopper for pop3 access, and all clients 
> access the mail over an openvpn tunnel. The only ports open to the 
> world are 22, 53 & 80. It's firewalled very tightly.
>
> I've had some issues of late that have made me wish I had the ability 
> to access the mail using a web client. I guess I have to transition to 
> imap to make this work, and I'm not adverse to doing that.
>
> I don't want standard web access, it must be https only.
>
> SquirrelMail is the first one that comes to mind, but I really have 
> _no_ idea. I'm open to any suggestions.
>
> All suggestions will be thoroughly beaten in a VM prior to a decision 
> being made.
>
> I thought about just having the mail server copy all E-mails to a 
> GMail account, but there are privacy issues associated with that I 
> can't compromise.
>
> Ta :)
> Brad
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