[dev] Module for Mail Administration

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hello,

After having used Vilma a few days, I found it lacked features I wanted 
and was not similar enough to the mysql backend I designed for my 
postfix smtp server. Hence I started my own module, Mad. It was both to 
address this lack of features and to deep into the Horde framework.

I don't know whether it may be interesting to other mail administrators...

Features :

- support limit of mailboxes/domain
- support limit of aliases (forwards)/domain
- support multiple destinations for aliases
- support multiple administrators for domains (both local administrators 
= accounts in the current domain, and extern admins = accounts in other 
domains). The idea is to allow users to administer all their domains 
with only one username+password (their email address) and not multiple 
accounts such as postmaster at domain1.tld, postmaster at domain2.tld, ...
- support quota for domain and/or mailbox
- support "use greylisting" flag to be used by postgrey or any other 
greylisting daemon
- user may change his own password
- support creation of domain/mailbox structure in LDAP for storing 
addressbooks used by Turba
- Users have access limited to their own addressbook + shared 
addressbook in Turba with access with mail clients such as Thunderbird. 
As such, a ldap user+password must be used. Mad automatically 
synchronizes user password for postfix & Cie with the ldap password


What is not yet available :

- physical creation of 'maildir' structure
- support of a 'deleted' flag to first move deleted items to a "recycle bin"
- support for mailing list (e.g., mailman)
- support for vacation (I must first look at vacation module as I do not 
want to reinvent the wheel)
- integration of external stats such as awstats or mrtg graphs
- export/import structure (domains/mailboxes/aliases)


Xavier Perseguers