A proper mail server with openmailadmin ?

[J.Bakshi]

Hi everyone,

I am running a multidomain email server based on postfix+openLdap
+cyrus. The webinterface is based on egroupware. egroupware is a
groupware solution which also managed the mail system too. But I'm
looking for a dedicated email system which will be a standalone email
system and not any integrated part of any bolted application.

I have already check the openmailadmin and it looks really what I'm
looking for. But before start working with it I like to be confirmed
about some points which you, the preset users of openmailadmin can
provide very clearly.

1> Can I get the multidomain support in Openmailadmin ?
2> How shall I migrate the existing cyrus email folder to the
openmailadmin ?

Kindly enlighten me,
Thanks

[Jaume Sabater]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:43 AM, J.Bakshi <baks...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1> Can I get the multidomain support in Openmailadmin ?

OpenMailAdmin uses virtual mail alias (virtual_alias_maps) and virtual
domains (virtual_alias_domains), but not virtual mailboxes. Than means
that you can have multiple alias from multiple (virtual) domains
pointing at one mailbox, and you can even give the mailbox the name
you want, but there will be only one mailbox named "X" in the whole
server.

> 2> How shall I migrate the existing cyrus email folder to the
> openmailadmin ?

Hmmm... if you already have Cyrus, you should not need to. OMA uses
IMAP to send commands and requests to the IMAP server and, AFAIK, it
does not use system commands or Cyrus specific stuff, therefore you
should be fine.

Nevertheless, Mark will be able to confirm or deny these statements
for sure, and add more information :)

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

"Ubi sapientas ibi libertas"

[Denny Schierz]

hi,

Am Montag, den 15.09.2008, 23:43 -0700 schrieb J.Bakshi:

> 1> Can I get the multidomain support in Openmailadmin ?

Absolutely yes. I'm running several domains on my machine with OMA

> 2> How shall I migrate the existing cyrus email folder to the
> openmailadmin ?

The perfect way is to use the perl tool imapsync. You need only the
right config für cyrus for example use a the "/" instead of the "dot"
for the physical folders.

The only one thing is, that i don't know, if you can use LDAP too.

cu denny

[J. Bakshi]

Jaume Sabater wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:43 AM, J.Bakshi <baks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> 1> Can I get the multidomain support in Openmailadmin ?
>>
>
> OpenMailAdmin uses virtual mail alias (virtual_alias_maps) and virtual
> domains (virtual_alias_domains), but not virtual mailboxes. Than means
> that you can have multiple alias from multiple (virtual) domains
> pointing at one mailbox, and you can even give the mailbox the name
> you want, but there will be only one mailbox named "X" in the whole
> server.
>

Hello Jaume,

Thanks for your kind response.
Honestly telling you I need "Virtual mailbox domain"
Say ad...@example1.com and ad...@example2.com
I already have this type of cyrus running here.
It is not possible to do this by configuration ?
"Virtual mailbox domain" is a popular and always wanted features in the
hosting server.
Is that missing in Openmailadmin ?

>
>> 2> How shall I migrate the existing cyrus email folder to the
>> openmailadmin ?
>>
>
> Hmmm... if you already have Cyrus, you should not need to. OMA uses
> IMAP to send commands and requests to the IMAP server and, AFAIK, it
> does not use system commands or Cyrus specific stuff, therefore you
> should be fine.
>
>

My Cyrus uses openldap as authentication. I need to change this to MySql
as a little change in the version makes ldap stop working, a problem
which always there during upgradation, but there is no such issue with
mysql. I need to preserve the email folders so that it can work with
mysql authentication too. Hope the configuration is already there in the
openmailadmin folder. By the way, do I have to create databes nd tables
in MySql to work with Openmailadmin ?

thanks

> Nevertheless, Mark will be able to confirm or deny these statements
> for sure, and add more information :)
>
>

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[J. Bakshi]

Denny Schierz wrote:
> hi,
>
> Am Montag, den 15.09.2008, 23:43 -0700 schrieb J.Bakshi:
>
>
>> 1> Can I get the multidomain support in Openmailadmin ?
>>
>
> Absolutely yes. I'm running several domains on my machine with OMA
>

that's great

>
>> 2> How shall I migrate the existing cyrus email folder to the
>> openmailadmin ?
>>
>
> The perfect way is to use the perl tool imapsync. You need only the
> right config für cyrus for example use a the "/" instead of the "dot"
> for the physical folders.
>
> The only one thing is, that i don't know, if you can use LDAP too.
>
> cu denny
>

Yes, I am running my cyrus with ldap authenticaton

[Jaume Sabater]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:04 AM, J. Bakshi <joy...@infoservices.in> wrote:

> Yes, I am running my cyrus with ldap authenticaton

AFAIK, OMA does not support LDAP authentication, as it takes the
information from the MySQL database (same as Postfix). I cannot say
how easy/difficult it would be to allow that, though.

[W-Mark Kubacki]

>From: openma...@googlegroups.com

>
>1> Can I get the multidomain support in Openmailadmin ?

Depends on which meaning of "multidomain support" you have in mind. In case of most, the answer is "yes".

>2> How shall I migrate the existing cyrus email folder to the
>openmailadmin ?

In general, you need to insert all users with their password hashes to OMA's "user" table, do the same with domains you are going to receive emails for and finally fill the "virtual" table with all the email addresses your users used to use.
To achieve all this you could use scripting support of OMA. Take [1] as a start.

As I don't know details about it, maybe someone more familiar with eGroupware can give us a hint. Anyone reading?

-- Mark
[1] http://openmailadmin.ossdl.de/browser/tags/1.0.1/user_bulk_create

[J. Bakshi]

W-Mark Kubacki wrote:
>> From: openma...@googlegroups.com
>>
>> 1> Can I get the multidomain support in Openmailadmin ?
>>
>
> Depends on which meaning of "multidomain support" you have in mind. In case of most, the answer is "yes".
>
>
>> 2> How shall I migrate the existing cyrus email folder to the
>> openmailadmin ?
>>
>
> In general, you need to insert all users with their password hashes to OMA's "user" table, do the same with domains you are going to receive emails for and finally fill the "virtual" table with all the email addresses your users used to use.
> To achieve all this you could use scripting support of OMA. Take [1] as a start.
>

Thanks for your kind response.

> As I don't know details about it, maybe someone more familiar with eGroupware can give us a hint. Anyone reading?

>
> -- Mark
> [1] http://openmailadmin.ossdl.de/browser/tags/1.0.1/user_bulk_create
>
> >
>