tarantir escribió:
Hi, tarantir.
While there are many very good web applications in the OSS Community for
managing Postfix virtual instances and Amavis Quarantines (such as PostVis
Admin and MailZu) they lacked a seamless integration with web based
Groupware. Managing multiple web applications was burdensome and the end
users, not of the web generation, needed a more simple and seamless
solution.
Therefore I developed 2 EGroupware Modules ZMAILADMIN and ZMAILUTIL.
These modules provide:
- Administration & Management of Postfix Virtual Mailbox, Aliases,
Domains/Transports
- Administration & Management of Amavis Quarantine, and Quarantine Policies
Some years ago, I did an approach about integration of egw and mail
systems capable of storing data in a mysql db[1]. I developed a small
app (outdated, and just for personal testing) called vmail that never
got the levels I wanted but because my own fault, lack of time, feedback
and help.
I’ve taken a look at the pdf and since surely is a good app (at least in
an standalone way), and it seems to me that is a different philosophy
than my approach. If you take the time to read the page where I try to
explain what I did, I don’t reinvent the wheel (i.e., egw itself has
already a framework managing accounts and basic mail data), so I try to
take advantage of it just let the mail agents use that framework. So, my
app was based in collecting some basic data and create the config files
that would be supplied to the mail agents, with minimal one-time work on
the agents.
If you get the idea (and agree to go that way), I rely on managing the
users via egw itself, and virtual aliases for several people by creating
a group and providing an email for the group.
I agree that egw user management system, as is, lacks (or used to lack)
some useful features like mail aliases or some of the ones you want to
add with your app, so it’s plain that there was (I don’t know if
actually there is) the need to add some tables for the extra features.
So I think it would be very nice if you (or someone else) merges both
and improves egw with a tool. For this, the db schema should be reviewed
to see existing tables and data can be reused, and not duplicate data.
I always missed something similar for ldap backend, and if I remember
correctly, I did some successful work relying on courier mail schemas
(which I always looked to override by using standard openldap schemas,
but didn’t get it), but never did any document. If anybody has any extra
idea and want to contribute and/or ask for material, I’m open to it.
My intention is not to drop your work, just try to take the best of the
existing works and see how to merge into something better. Any ideas are
welcome.
Regards.
[1]
http://www.egroupware.org/egroupware/index.php?menuaction=wiki.wiki_ui.view&page=Virtual+users+and+domains+with+egw&cd=yes
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