Re: [cobalt-users] Openwebmail @www nothing works :(

[Menno M Jansz <lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

>This works for me:
>
>1) have the user log into openwebmail
>2) click on 'User Preferences'
>3) click on 'Edit personal email addresses'
>4) fill in the 'real name' (John User) and 'Email Address'
>(John_U@xxxxxxxxxx)
>5) click the 'add' button
>6) click 'Back to user preferences'
>7) in the 'From:' drop down select the new entry from the list.
>8) click the 'Save' button
>
>I don't think this can be done globally, just sent a new user the
>instructions or after you set up a new user, you can do it for them.
>

Yes, I should have said, this is the only way I can get it to change for existing users, but some, like Kam,  have 
managed to sort it for new users with the virtusertable trick. Which of course is the ideal way.

>>Then I read about fooling openwebmail by pointing it at an empty 
>>virtusertable, by using
>>"virtusertable /etc/mail/virtusertable.openwebmail" but this just gave me 
>>unknown user errors.
>>
>>What am I missing?
>
>What did you do specifically when pointing it at an empty v.u.t. ? (As this 
>worked fine for me on my RaQ3)
>
>I simply did the following:
>1) Used pico to create an empty file.
>2) Modified the default conf file (the one it says not to change), to point 
>at this empty file.
>3) Viola. Any **first time user logins from this point onwards** will just 
>have <user_name>@<domain>
>

This is what I did, apart from step 1, I just did a "touch /etc/mail/virtusertable.openwebmail"
 and step 3 I added "virtusertable /etc/mail/virtusertable.openwebmail" to the normal config, 
not the .default (but I tried your way also, and it made no difference. I get an 
"Open WebMail ERROR user does not exist" screen when I log in as a newly created  user. 
I assume becuase it now has no entries in the file. 

I'm on a RaQ4, so maybe this is the difference. Or the OpenWebmail version. Which are you running Kam? I'm running 
the latest pkg from pkgmaster, 1.70.

Anyone have success with the virtusertable trick on a RaQ4?

Cheers,
Menno



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