Best way to achive email hosting for several domains

Hi.

I'd like to know what are the best practices for
implementing
email hosting for several domains. The service is
accessible
via pop/imap/webmail

Apart from that, I'd like to ask for comments on the
actual comfiguration..

The system is already configured and running as follows:

# uname -rms
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p23 i386

MTA:		sendmail
imap/pop:	mail/imap-uw
webmail:	horde from ports

Every mailbox as a local unix account, ie:
infoadomain.com --> a1
steveadomain.com --> a2
infoanotherdomain.com --> b1
joeanotherdomain.com --> b2
etc..

Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned with
the
webmail login.. I'd like infoadomain.com to login with
a
username equal to the email, but as the authentication in
horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to proceed with
that..

Any hints/suggestions are welcome.

Thank you and best regards.
Robi.


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Please, any thoughts here?

Best regards.
Robi.


Roberto Nunnari wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'd like to know what are the best practices for
implementing
> email hosting for several domains. The service is
accessible
> via pop/imap/webmail
> 
> Apart from that, I'd like to ask for comments on the
> actual comfiguration..
> 
> The system is already configured and running as
follows:
> 
> # uname -rms
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p23 i386
> 
> MTA:        sendmail
> imap/pop:    mail/imap-uw
> webmail:    horde from ports
> 
> Every mailbox as a local unix account, ie:
> infoadomain.com --> a1
> steveadomain.com --> a2
> infoanotherdomain.com --> b1
> joeanotherdomain.com --> b2
> etc..
> 
> Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned
with the
> webmail login.. I'd like infoadomain.com to login with
a
> username equal to the email, but as the authentication
in
> horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to proceed
with that..
> 
> Any hints/suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Thank you and best regards.
> Robi.
> 
> 
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:29:29 +0100
Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnarisupsi.ch> wrote:

> Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned
with the
> webmail login.. I'd like infoadomain.com to login with
a
> username equal to the email, but as the authentication
in
> horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to proceed
with that..

Hi Roberto,
I try to avoid that beast of horde...but most webmail
products that I've seen
(including Horde, if memory doesn't fail me), simply make an
imap connection to
your server and pass on whatever auth you give to it....
IOW, whatever works
for imap works with webmail.

anyway, it wouldn't be too hard to test, right?

B
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Hi Norberto.


Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:29:29 +0100
> Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnarisupsi.ch> wrote:
> 
>> Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned
with the
>> webmail login.. I'd like infoadomain.com to login with
a
>> username equal to the email, but as the
authentication in
>> horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to
proceed with that..
> 
> Hi Roberto,
> I try to avoid that beast of horde...but most webmail
products that I've seen
> (including Horde, if memory doesn't fail me), simply
make an imap connection to
> your server and pass on whatever auth you give to
it.... IOW, whatever works
> for imap works with webmail.

Yes.. That's how it works now.. horde simply delegates to
imp that
does the authentication to the imap server.. what I mean is
that
as users unix accounts are named like aaa01, aaa02, aab01,
but
they are mapped to email addresses like joeadomain.com, 
infoadomain.com and infoanotherdomain.com, I'd like
to let
the user authenticate to the webmail using the email
address,
and then have some piece of software map the email address
to
the local unix account before attempting the auth process..
I found out that imp provides hook points to do this kind
of things and maybe I'll go that direction, but I just
would like to hear what other people are doing.. maybe
have aliases in /etc/passwd (ie different usernames, same
UID/GID)?

Best regards.
Robi.


> 
> anyway, it wouldn't be too hard to test, right?
> 
> B
> _________________________
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>    Dennis Ritchie
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