[imp] Best way to achive email hosting for several domains

[Roberto Nunnari]

Hi Jan.

Could you please point me to a howto or introduction to
vinfo hook?

Thank you.
Robi.


Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von Roberto Nunnari <robi at nunnisoft.ch>:
> 
>> 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
> 
> This isn't much different from running it on a single host. You  
> probably only want to use Alias to point from each domain to the  
> single Horde install.
> If you use Horde 3.2, you could leverage the virtual host feature that  
> allows vhost specific configuration.
> 
>> Apart from that, I'd like to ask for comments on my 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:
>> info at adomain.com --> a1
>> steve at adomain.com --> a2
>> info at anotherdomain.com --> b1
>> joe at anotherdomain.com --> b2
>> etc..
>>
>> Now, everything works fine, but I'm a bit concerned with the
>> webmail login.. I'd like info at adomain.com to login with a
>> username equal to the email, but at present the authentication in
>> horde is handled by imp, I'm not sure how to proceed with that..
> 
> You could use the vinfo hook to convert between both user name styles.
> 
> Jan.
>