Webmail administration

souperdad · Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject: Webmail administration

I am looking for a web based email administration app for end users. Basically I am hosting a number of websites including email using qmail, vpopmail and squirrelmail. What I'm looking for is a web based utility that will enable an administrator for each of the virtual domains to login and create new email address on their own, change their passwords, etc.

Does anyone know of a good program for this. I've taken a look at webmin but from what I can tell it's not really geared for end-users but more for administrators.

BlackEdder · Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject:

Well there is a professional package cpanel: http://www.cpanel.net/dist.cgi . And when I search for open source alternatives I found:
http://www.vhcs.net/vhcs/en/news/index.php
http://wht.sourceforge.net/
http://unux.org/index.php?page=WebCP

souperdad · Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject:

I like the looks of vhcs. It mentions in the reuirements that it needs postfix. Do you know off hand if it will work with qmail?

Also do you know if there are any packages like this that are emerge-able?

Headrush · Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:

I am not sure if it provides individual virtual domain management, but worth checking out qmail-admin. Very simple and easy.

souperdad · Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:48 pm Post subject:

Yeah I checked out qmail admin already but unless I'm missing something it only allows you to modify your own personal information. I'm looking for something for a web hosting type company. Thanks anyways though

kashani · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject:

http://www.vmailmgr.org/

That might be what you're looking for. Install and intergration looks ugly, but maybe it'll be decent once you get it running. If you were running Postfix I'd say use postfixadmin as it's exactly what you're looking for.

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pakman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 100

I'm using this for many years now:
http://www.inter7.com/qmailadmin/

From the same peeps as vpopmail, does everything you're after and a whole lot more. The only thing you need to do manually is create postmaster@vhosted-domain.com and give the user the pass.

souperdad · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:46 pm Post subject:

I'm trying to use qmailadmin. It works fine but I installed using the emerge. The only problem I'm having is that none of the images load. I kow it says to move the images somewhere and that /var/log/apache2/error_log will tell you where to move them. The only thing I see in the error_log is this

[error] [client 192.168.1.1] File does not exist: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/domain/qmailadmin, referer: http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin

Where do I move the images to and what does this error message mean?

pakman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 100

Looking at the ebuild I think you need to copy them to /var/www/localhost/htdocs/domain/qmailadmin/images.

If you create the directory with mkdir -p /var/www/localhost/htdocs/qmailadmin/images the error message should change. I think its happening because apache can't find the images but also can't find the directories it expects the images to be in and is only complaining about the latter.

souperdad · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:55 am Post subject:

When I emerged qmailadmin it placed the images in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/qmailadmin/images. All files have the following permissions

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root

pakman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 100

What do you get if you visit http://yoursite.com/qmailadmin/images/middleleft1.png. Does that give a more useful error message from apache?

The permissions on that dir look OK, check the permissions on the qmailadmin directory above it. If its also world readable that isn't the problem.

souperdad · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject:

I get the qmailadmin login screen minus the images

pakman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 100

Soz for slow reply, if you visit the URL for the image you get the html page ?

Whats in the apache logs?

(incidently are you using mod_rewrite for anything on that server)

friedmud · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject:

What do I log in as here?

I have the login screen... I've tried several things (including root)... what do I need to login as?

Friedmud

friedmud · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject:

Nevermind... I figured it out... I must have typed a funky password in when I set it up... I just deleted the domain and readded it with a good password.

Friedmud

acld · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 11

I've got a qmailadmin problem. I just emerged it today, and when I try to add a new mailing list i get

friedmud · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:45 pm Post subject:

Acid... sounds like an apache problem to me.

Have you done anything weird with your apache config? It's like you're getting an incomplete header or something.... because that text is normal... but it is HTML so it shouldn't be shown in your browser.

What do you mean the mailinglist wasn't created? What error are you gettting?

Friedmud

acld · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 11

not getting an error, just that code up top.

I know the mailing list isn't created because when I click on the mailing lists button under main menu it says No mailing lists to display.

everything else with qmailadmin works fine, but the only thing I really wanted to set up was a mailing list:oops:

acld · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 11

I just checke my apache logs and found this

acld · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 11

fixed my problem. I forgot to emerge ezmlm and autoresponder. doh.