New To OMA - Some Questions abt Dovecot and Postfix

[Marco]

List members,

i m new to OMA. i have installed postfix etc,etc and hv created users
via commandline before.

Now , i would like to create a mailserver with SMTP ( postfix) and
IMAP ( dovecot) and use OMA as the interface admin.

My questions;

1. Can i use OMA to create users for postfix? Or the users i create
for dovecot will automatically be used for postfix.? Or the users i
create will be automatically available to both.
2. i plan to install horde groupware webmail edition and use OMA for
the email administration. Is this advisable. Anybody done this before?
3. The above questions may be dumb and i apologize in advance. But i m
a little confused.


Regards,
marco.

[Linux Advocate]

hello? anybody home?

[Jaume Sabater]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Linux Advocate <linuxh...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> hello? anybody home?

Don't get me wrong, mate, but all your questions are not OMA specific.
I suggest that you first understand how a mail server works, then read
the OMA documentation, test it, and answers will come for themselves.

>> 1. Can i use OMA to create users for postfix? Or the users i create
>> for dovecot will automatically be used for postfix.? Or the users i
>> create will be automatically available to both.

That depends on your installation, on how you configure it. The usual
answer should be "yes".

>> 2. i plan to install horde groupware webmail edition and use OMA for
>> the email administration. Is this advisable. Anybody done this before?

Different stuff. Horde should not interfere with OMA at all. Still,
that does not mean it will always work out of the box.

--
Jaume Sabater
http://linuxsilo.net/

"Ubi sapientas ibi libertas"

[Linux Advocate]

Thanx.



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> From: Jaume Sabater <jsab...@gmail.com>
> To: openma...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:38:06 PM
> Subject: Fwd: [Openmailadmin] Re: New To OMA - Some Questions abt Dovecot and Postfix

[W-Mark Kubacki]

> From: openma...@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:openma...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Marco

>
> 1. Can i use OMA to create users for postfix? Or the users i create
> for dovecot will automatically be used for postfix.? Or the users i
> create will be automatically available to both.

The latter is considered as best practice. Although there are good exceptions.

> 2. i plan to install horde groupware webmail edition and use OMA for
> the email administration. Is this advisable. Anybody done this before?

It is not advisable, but you can do that. Just make sure you only use one tool for administration.

> 3. The above questions may be dumb and i apologize in advance. But i m
> a little confused.

That will change as soon as you got your first mailserver running. Or the second, depends on the capacity for suffering of your accounts' holders. (No joke. Seriously. Argh, think as you please... I bet everyone of us did experience that.)

--
Mark

[Linux Advocate]

thanx.



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