[Zope-PTK] Seeking advice on mail server setup

[Itai Tavor]

Dan L. Piersonwrote:

>Itai Tavor <itai@optusnet.com.au> writes:
>
>>  As a first step I'd like to set up mail accounts for all the members. I
>>  thought about simply creating Linux accounts for everyone, but I think it
>>  would be best to avoid doing that, both for security and ease of management
>>  reasons. So I'm looking for a way to set up these accounts, and for a mail
>>  server to set them up on, that will support my long term feature
>>  requirements. BTW, this will be set up on a RedHat Linux system.
>>
>>
>>  These requirements are:
>>
>>  - Read and compose mail inside the portal
>>  - POP access from outside the portal
>>  - Create/edit/delete mail server accounts from inside the portal
>>  - Sync mail server POP passwords to portal member passwords
>>  - Place restrictions on outgoing mail by message size, target address, etc.
>>  - Filter incoming mail
>>
>>  Any suggestions?
>
>You might look at qmail with vmailmgr, I think it provides the support
>you want, though you will need some external methods that execute
>commands in the context of a specific normal user (who could probably
>be the Zope user).  We're using qmail here, but our current main
>server works with IMAP and doesn't use vmailmgr -- we're looking at
>a qmail/pop/vmailmgr config for another server once someone has time
>to do it.
>
>Dan Pierson

Thanks! qmail with vmailmgr looks good, There's even a python 
interface (vpyadmin), although the code isn't available at the URL 
provided. If I can find it, talking to it from Zope should be real 
easy.
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