Hello Peter
It seems that your hosting provider is not actually giving you any control over the user accounts; they are not giving you a true, separate instance of a linux install where you can install & configure LDAP, they are giving you a virtual domain that shares system resources with other web/mail servers. Due to the ability to have virtual web and email domains on the same host server, and the fact that user accounts can be ‘system accounts’, ‘LDAP accounts’ and ‘service accounts[ie MySQL users]’, there is a lot of confusion over “virtual servers”.
In this case, you will likely have to talk with them about a separate stand-alone server (even a virtual one is fine - that is what I use). If they cannot offer a virtual machine, I would consider a different hosting provider, as there should not be any reason they cannot provide you with a system where YOU control the user accounts. The fact they are worried that you could damage other user accounts tells me they are not using a good security model to begin with.
Regards
Ken
Hi
I am busy trying to set up emails (FelaMiMail)
I have the following set up on a shared server
Operating System: linux
Kernel Version : 2.6.38.6-sg4-nomm-nogrsec
PHP : 5.2.5
and
EGroupware Community Version 1.8.002
I have looked in the Manual for EGroupware 1.8/EPL but this is more for
users not for administrators.
Is there an administrators manual some where?
When I log into EGroupware as the admin I can see the email accounts I have
created using CPannel on the shared server but I am unable to set any ACL’s
for them.
The users are able to send emails but are unable to see their own in-box.
But the administrator can see all the emails sent to them.
As I understand this, in order for this to work it needs to access the imap
ACL. However I don’t think it does have access to the ACL because;
When I test this via the test script provided
public_html/felamimail/testimapserver.php
I get the following error
0.18234586715698 :: Checking for ACL support: not supported
My service provider says:
*I’m afraid that you will not be able to configure your EGroupware
application to modify the IMAP server settings.
Keep in mind that this is a shared hosting account and if we allowed each
user to modify the settings of basic services such as IMAP all other users
would be affected.*
Will it make a difference if I use a secured IMAP connection? ( I have tried
using this for the administrator but it does not connect. I don’t want to
waste time trying to get this to work if it will not make any difference.)
Do I have to some how use EGroupware to create the email accounts instead of
creating them using Cpannel?
Any hints or links appreciated.
Thanks
Peter
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