RE: [cobalt-users] Server wide Webmail for RaQ4, suggestions please

["Si Watts" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > So excellent in fact that I was able to
> > copy and paste all the commands straight from his page,
> and ended up
> > with a fully functioning installation, working server wide.
>
> Thanks for posting your experience. Let me ask a couple of details:
>
> 1) You mention the user has to enter their *server* user
> ID, which makes
> sense for a server-wide installation. Do you think your
> customers will find
> this confusing? (perhaps not since that's how their mail
> clients are set up
> to check mail....)

I dunno whether they'll find it easy. It has to be more secure to do
it this way than using an email address as a login. I had however
wondered whether to set up some form of login using email addresses
and passwords that will then cross reference a db to pull out their
server username for them and feed it into the Squirrel login section
(but that's for another day!
As it stands now though, I think the user account names should
suffice. Most are very similar to their normal names anyway.


> 2) Using a dummy domain like "domain.com", what URL do your
> users use to
> access the login?

the would access through;
http://my.server.colo.myhost.com/~webmail/

I didn't try setting this up in a folder within a mainsite though.
Dunno if this would cause permissions problmes. BUT I did install the
UebiMiau into a main site folder ie http://domain.com/clientmail and
that works fine. (I even published it via frontpage to see if all
would be OK and it works well, just had to access via ssh and chmod
one directory to 777 which FP has not yet overwritten, despite
publishing again to the site.

Regards

Si